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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31576" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:08.188Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:42:00.110Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31576" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31576.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31576" title: "media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe()\n\nIn hackrf driver, the following race condition occurs:\n```\n\t\tCPU0\t\t\t\t\t\tCPU1\nhackrf_probe()\n kzalloc(); // alloc hackrf_dev\n ....\n v4l2_device_register();\n ....\n\t\t\t\t\t\tfd = sys_open(\"/path/to/dev\"); // open hackrf fd\n\t\t\t\t\t\t....\n v4l2_device_unregister();\n ....\n kfree(); // free hackrf_dev\n ....\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsys_ioctl(fd, ...);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t v4l2_ioctl();\n\t\t\t\t\t\t video_is_registered() // UAF!!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t....\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsys_close(fd);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t v4l2_release() // UAF!!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t hackrf_video_release()\n\t\t\t\t\t\t kfree(); // DFB!!\n```\n\nWhen a V4L2 or video device is unregistered, the device node is removed so\nnew open() calls are blocked.\n\nHowever, file descriptors that are already open-and any in-flight I/O-do\nnot terminate immediately; they remain valid until the last reference is\ndropped and the driver's release() is invoked.\n\nTherefore, freeing device memory on the error path after hackrf_probe()\nhas registered dev it will lead to a race to use-after-free vuln, since\nthose already-open handles haven't been released yet.\n\nAnd since release() free memory too, race to use-after-free and\ndouble-free vuln occur.\n\nTo prevent this, if device is registered from probe(), it should be\nmodified to free memory only through release() rather than calling\nkfree() directly." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87b9685cca91ed715c39ba544715832d26a7f4b4"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"131ec9046e1c8af101aebdaec4e8095e05f3312b"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67fd62e3efdc9dce01f76d95a745212f4feb38e6"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45cbaf5c7cdc5386d86377f0daf94a17a007fed0"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98a0a81ce78020c2522e0046f49d200de9778cb9"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07e9e674b6146b1f6fc41b1f54b8968bf2802824"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2145c71a8044362e82e9923f001ba2aeb771b848"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fcd1d70792a35c8a97414fe429f48311e41269c2"},{"version":"8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b7da2b4d0fe014eff181ed37e3bf832eb8ed258"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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