Medium [CVE-2026-64491] fix work UAF on disconnect
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-64491 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usx2y: us144mkii: fix work UAF on disconnect tascam_disconnect() cancels capture_work and midi_in_work before usb_kill_anchored_urbs() kills the capture/MIDI-in URBs. Those URBs self-resubmit, and their completion handlers reschedule the work.
A URB that completes in the small window between cancel_work_sync() and usb_kill_anchored_urbs() therefore re-arms the work after its only cancel. Nothing cancels it again before snd_card_free() frees the card-private tascam structure, so the work handler then runs on freed memory.
Kill the anchored URBs before cancelling the work; once the work is cancelled no remaining URB can complete to re-arm it. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) usx2y us144mkii driver.
This vulnerability, a Use-After-Free (UAF), occurs when a USB device is disconnected, leading to a race condition where the system attempts to access memory that has already been released. This could allow a local attacker to cause system instability, crash the system, or potentially execute malicious code.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-825.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected versions
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Mitigation
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