CVE-2026-45885
Published: May 27, 2026
Modified: May 27, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: cpcap-battery: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed() Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_` variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply` handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding unregistration of the IRQ handler has run. This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or otherwise silently corrupts the memory... Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during `probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in `power_supply_changed()`. Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 - < c549dd3de4b3f6e726d1b8386d40ccf7d3abdbe4affected 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 - < 3ff75cba1c98349a23a8f9333981deba1972cc11affected 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 - < 2ce2334be155bd8bad6377e99984246ce4dbd08caffected 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 - < cbb9b07f88a9ef6518934c41eb3e8cf840d657d5affected 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 - < f3fbe309c9bfe1aac1e2b26543e9dc4829f3275a+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.13unaffected 0 - < 4.13unaffected 5.10.252 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.202 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.165 - <= 6.1.*+5 more versions |
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