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  "schema_version": "1.6.1",
  "id": "RPI-CVE-2026-72073",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-72073"
  ],
  "published": "2026-08-15T06:04:33Z",
  "summary": "mmc: vub300: fix use-after-free on probe failure",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmmc: vub300: fix use-after-free on probe failure\n\nThe vub300 driver lifetime-manages its controller state using\nvub300->kref, with vub300_delete() freeing the mmc host when the last\nreference is dropped. The probe error path after the inactivity timer has\nbeen armed still bypasses that lifetime rule, however, and falls through\nto mmc_free_host() directly if mmc_add_host() fails.\n\nThe race window is between arming the inactivity timer and reaching the\nprobe error unwind after mmc_add_host() fails:\n\n        probe thread                     timer/workqueue\n        ------------                     ---------------\n        kref_init(&vub300->kref)         ref = 1\n        kref_get(&vub300->kref)          ref = 2, timer ref\n        add_timer(inactivity_timer)      fires after one second\n        |\n        |   race window\n        |<---------------------------------------------------->\n        |\n        mmc_add_host(mmc)\n                                         inactivity timer fires\n                                         vub300_queue_dead_work()\n                                           kref_get()          ref = 3\n                                           queue_work(deadwork)\n        mmc_add_host() fails\n        timer_delete_sync()\n        mmc_free_host(mmc)\n          frees vub300\n                                         deadwork runs\n                                           use-after-free\n\nThe inactivity timeout is one second, so this would require\nmmc_add_host() to both fail and take more than one second to do so. This\nis unlikely to happen in practice, but the error path is still wrong.\n\ntimer_delete_sync() only waits for the timer callback itself. It does\nnot flush deadwork that the callback may already have queued. As a\nresult, queued deadwork can still hold a kref while the probe error path\ndirectly frees the backing mmc host, including the vub300 storage.\n\nFix this by using the same lifetime mechanism as disconnect. Clear\nvub300->interface so that the timer callback and any queued deadwork\nreturn early and drop their references, then drop the initial probe\nreference and return without falling through to err_free_host.",
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12",
        "name": "linux"
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  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72073"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b82af744e06cd741938c3da54fdbe564a7e52d9"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/618cf6b139503ec18ef93ffd663396aaf99b763a"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3b5f242997a3be7404112fd48784881560aea57"
    }
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  "database_specific": {
    "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git",
    "upstream_modified": "2026-08-17T05:24:08Z"
  }
}