CVE-2026-98645

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98645
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98645.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98645
Downstream
Published
2026-10-18T15:20:16Z
Modified
2026-10-20T02:30:39Z
Summary
HID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown

winwing_init_ff() passes the driver's private data, allocated with devm_kzalloc() in winwing_probe(), as the effect context to input_ff_create_memless(). The memoryless force-feedback core takes ownership of that pointer and frees it with kfree() from input_ff_destroy() (ml_ff_destroy()) when the input device is destroyed.

Freeing a devm-managed allocation with kfree() is an invalid free, and the same object is then released again by devres when the HID device is torn down, a double free. As the allocation also embeds the LED class devices, their timers and work item live on freed memory and the slab gets corrupted. This triggers on unbind, rmmod, hot-unplug and on system suspend, where the firmware cache walks the now-corrupt devres list. KASAN reports:

BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in input_ff_destroy Allocated by task N: winwing_probe

Pass NULL as the memless context instead and fetch the driver data from the input device in winwing_play_effect(): the HID core already stores the hid_device as the input device's drvdata. The force-feedback core then owns nothing that it must not free.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98645.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
42d020b54edc57d03749bed75976f1e962a9fbfa
Fixed
2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923
Fixed
a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98645.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.1.0
Fixed
7.2.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98645.json"