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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64251"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-24T15:31:17.601Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:52:02.919Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64251"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64251.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64251"
title: "pwrseq: core: fix use-after-free in pwrseq_debugfs_seq_next()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npwrseq: core: fix use-after-free in pwrseq_debugfs_seq_next()\n\npwrseq_debugfs_seq_next() declares 'next' with __free(put_device),\nwhich causes put_device() to be called on the returned pointer when\nthe variable goes out of scope.  This results in a use-after-free\nsince the seq_file framework receives a pointer whose reference has\nalready been dropped.\n\nSimply removing __free(put_device) would fix the UAF but would leak\nthe reference acquired by bus_find_next_device(), as stop() only\ncalls up_read(&pwrseq_sem) and never releases the device reference.\n\nFix this by making the reference counting consistent across all\nseq_file callbacks, matching the standard pattern used by PCI and\nSCSI:\n\n- start(): use get_device() so it returns a referenced pointer.\n- next(): explicitly put_device(curr) to release the previous\n  device's reference (no NULL check needed - the seq_file framework\n  only calls next() while the previous return was non-NULL).\n- stop(): put_device(data) to release the last iterated device's\n  reference, with a NULL guard since stop() may be called with NULL\n  when start() returned NULL or next() reached end-of-sequence."
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