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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-45866" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:15:46.135Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:15:46.135Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-45866" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45866.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45866" title: "serial: caif: fix use-after-free in caif_serial ldisc_close()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: caif: fix use-after-free in caif_serial ldisc_close()\n\nThere is a use-after-free bug in caif_serial where handle_tx() may\naccess ser-\u003etty after the tty has been freed.\n\nThe race condition occurs between ldisc_close() and packet transmission:\n\n CPU 0 (close) CPU 1 (xmit)\n ------------- ------------\n ldisc_close()\n tty_kref_put(ser-\u003etty)\n [tty may be freed here]\n \u003c-- race window --\u003e\n caif_xmit()\n handle_tx()\n tty = ser-\u003etty // dangling ptr\n tty-\u003eops-\u003ewrite() // UAF!\n schedule_work()\n ser_release()\n unregister_netdevice()\n\nThe root cause is that tty_kref_put() is called in ldisc_close() while\nthe network device is still active and can receive packets.\n\nSince ser and tty have a 1:1 binding relationship with consistent\nlifecycles (ser is allocated in ldisc_open and freed in ser_release\nvia unregister_netdevice, and each ser binds exactly one tty), we can\nsafely defer the tty reference release to ser_release() where the\nnetwork device is unregistered.\n\nFix this by moving tty_kref_put() from ldisc_close() to ser_release(),\nafter unregister_netdevice(). This ensures the tty reference is held\nas long as the network device exists, preventing the UAF.\n\nNote: We save ser-\u003etty before unregister_netdevice() because ser is\nembedded in netdev's private data and will be freed along with netdev\n(needs_free_netdev = true).\n\nHow to reproduce: Add mdelay(500) at the beginning of ldisc_close()\nto widen the race window, then run the reproducer program [1].\n\nNote: There is a separate deadloop issue in handle_tx() when using\nPORT_UNKNOWN serial ports (e.g., /dev/ttyS3 in QEMU without proper\nserial backend). This deadloop exists even without this patch,\nand is likely caused by inconsistency between uart_write_room() and\nuart_write() in serial core. It has been addressed in a separate\npatch [2].\n\nKASAN report:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in handle_tx+0x5d1/0x620\nRead of size 1 at addr ffff8881131e1490 by task caif_uaf_trigge/9929\n\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x10e/0x1f0\n print_report+0xd0/0x630\n kasan_report+0xe4/0x120\n handle_tx+0x5d1/0x620\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9d/0x6c0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x6e2/0x4410\n packet_xmit+0x243/0x360\n packet_sendmsg+0x26cf/0x5500\n __sys_sendto+0x4a3/0x520\n __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0\n do_syscall_64+0xc9/0xf80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f615df2c0d7\n\nAllocated by task 9930:\n\nFreed by task 64:\n\nLast potentially related work creation:\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881131e1000\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048\nThe buggy address is located 1168 bytes inside of\n freed 2048-byte region [ffff8881131e1000, ffff8881131e1800)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage_owner tracks the page as allocated\npage last free pid 9778 tgid 9778 stack trace:\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n ffff8881131e1380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n ffff8881131e1400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n\u003effff8881131e1480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n ^\n ffff8881131e1500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n ffff8881131e1580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n==================================================================\n[1]: https://gist.github.com/mrpre/f683f244544f7b11e7fa87df9e6c2eeb\n[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20260204074327.226165-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev/T/#u" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e266ba8d330d3b8e5bc198f238cd8901826cfa1"},{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3c75db4e0460641dbcd274b40867e252d801da1"},{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e63d6f68544ae5269ac9735ae5b69b59b5b8725"},{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"331e2b7051635780edea248dd08ae2026c126f4a"},{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52731ef4438155cea782fac74e547a327ab9e7c5"},{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8c197aaa56b25a2d54f3aa07e27e228d6c08546"},{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40962f2bf8cdba63af23aec95ad3f49b689e58e2"},{"version":"56e0ef527b184b3de2d7f88c6190812b2b2ac6bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"308e7e4d0a846359685f40aade023aee7b27284c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"5.10.252","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.202","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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