CVE-2026-31576
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.8)—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe()
In hackrf driver, the following race condition occurs: ``` CPU0 CPU1 hackrf_probe() kzalloc(); // alloc hackrf_dev .... v4l2_device_register(); .... fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open hackrf fd .... v4l2_device_unregister(); .... kfree(); // free hackrf_dev .... sys_ioctl(fd, ...); v4l2_ioctl(); video_is_registered() // UAF!! .... sys_close(fd); v4l2_release() // UAF!! hackrf_video_release() kfree(); // DFB!! ```
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When a V4L2 or video device is unregistered, the device node is removed so new open() calls are blocked.
However, file descriptors that are already open-and any in-flight I/O-do not terminate immediately; they remain valid until the last reference is dropped and the driver's release() is invoked.
Therefore, freeing device memory on the error path after hackrf_probe() has registered dev it will lead to a race to use-after-free vuln, since those already-open handles haven't been released yet.
And since release() free memory too, race to use-after-free and double-free vuln occur.
To prevent this, if device is registered from probe(), it should be modified to free memory only through release() rather than calling kfree() directly.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.8
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.17%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 6
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation85 % - Impacto principal
T1059Command and Scripting Interpreterexecution75 %
Acceso local (AV:L) sin interacción (UI:N) con privilegios (PR:L) permite UAF/DFB en kernel para ejecución de código arbitrario en contexto privilegiado.
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-416
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e9e674b6146b1f6fc41b1f54b8968bf2802824
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/131ec9046e1c8af101aebdaec4e8095e05f3312b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2145c71a8044362e82e9923f001ba2aeb771b848
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b7da2b4d0fe014eff181ed37e3bf832eb8ed258
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45cbaf5c7cdc5386d86377f0daf94a17a007fed0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67fd62e3efdc9dce01f76d95a745212f4feb38e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b9685cca91ed715c39ba544715832d26a7f4b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98a0a81ce78020c2522e0046f49d200de9778cb9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcd1d70792a35c8a97414fe429f48311e41269c2
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