CVE-2026-98645

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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: HID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown", "id": "2555000", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555000"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "5.5", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-763", "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nHID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown\nwinwing_init_ff() passes the driver's private data, allocated with\ndevm_kzalloc() in winwing_probe(), as the effect context to\ninput_ff_create_memless(). The memoryless force-feedback core takes\nownership of that pointer and frees it with kfree() from\ninput_ff_destroy() (ml_ff_destroy()) when the input device is\ndestroyed.\nFreeing a devm-managed allocation with kfree() is an invalid free, and\nthe same object is then released again by devres when the HID device is\ntorn down, a double free. As the allocation also embeds the LED class\ndevices, their timers and work item live on freed memory and the slab\ngets corrupted. This triggers on unbind, rmmod, hot-unplug and on system\nsuspend, where the firmware cache walks the now-corrupt devres list.\nKASAN reports:\nBUG: KASAN: invalid-free in input_ff_destroy\nAllocated by task N:\nwinwing_probe\nPass NULL as the memless context instead and fetch the driver data from\nthe input device in winwing_play_effect(): the HID core already stores\nthe hid_device as the input device's drvdata. The force-feedback core\nthen owns nothing that it must not free.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Winwing Human Interface Device (HID) driver. The driver improperly manages memory when releasing force-feedback resources, leading to an invalid memory release and subsequent double free. A local user could trigger this flaw during device disconnection, driver removal, or system suspension, resulting in memory corruption and a Denial of Service (DoS) via a system crash."], "name": "CVE-2026-98645", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}], "public_date": "2026-10-18T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98645\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98645\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98645.mbox"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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