CVE-2026-45867
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: act8945a: 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.
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Affected products
16- osv-coords14 versionspkg:linux/kernelpkg:rpm/opensuse/dtb-aarch64&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-64kb&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-azure&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-default&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-default-base&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-docs&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-kvmsmall&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-obs-build&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-obs-qa&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-rt&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-syms&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
>= 4.9.0, < 5.10.252+ 13 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 4.9.0, < 5.10.252
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1.160000.2.19
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0768e8525a46df103647ca5059b32320d7fd17e4nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3291c51d4684d048dd2eb91b5b65fcfdaf72141fnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/697bb5dc0cb4791e244f3970b067bc1ef33be9d9nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/76a42ba547a9b2e2337894f67a4d9247445007d5nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/83c1bd466c514cb24ca6ef347c5aac76a13c4e1envdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d023ef9f748b2090f7a9dbdd5c622b6ad99088eanvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f27eb76def5c07e4d7cc468b40741f19dafc83cenvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2a0777b1e5a3cee1712c4d3e9095c0df8fc8cb3nvdPatch
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