CVE-2026-45938

power: supply: pm8916_lbc: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 27, 2026 at 12:17 PM UTC
Updated: June 27, 2026 at 11:41 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: pm8916_lbc: 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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.146.19 ≤ v < 6.19.46.7 ≤ v < 6.12.756.7 ≤ v < 6.18.146.7 ≤ v < 6.19.46.7 ≤ v < 7.06.7f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13
Vendor states this is fixed in 08e674e9862a2db46fb234eb7c5442455ece0131 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b7508129978ae1e2ed9b0410396abc05def9c4eb (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d7d31fc99d248d5f47588f50dce5c7599c991c6a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in dbe579e620ef0f53db490ec79a8566e4ea8918ac (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.75 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.19.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusUNDERGOING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-416

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