# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64340"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:03.896Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:53:43.875Z"
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-2026-64340"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64340.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64340"
title: "USB: legousbtower: fix use-after-free on disconnect race"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: legousbtower: fix use-after-free on disconnect race\n\nmutex_unlock() may access the mutex structure after releasing the lock\nand therefore cannot be used to manage lifetime of objects directly\n(unlike spinlocks and refcounts). [1][2]\n\nUse a kref to release the driver data to avoid use-after-free in\nmutex_unlock() when release() races with disconnect().\n\n[1] a51749ab34d9 (\"locking/mutex: Document that mutex_unlock() is\n                   non-atomic\")\n[2] 2b9d9e0a9ba0 (\"locking/mutex: Clarify that mutex_unlock(), and most\n                   other sleeping locks, can still use the lock object\n                   after it's unlocked\")"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11d069f85851997b4ea0adf242ed9672dc749b8f"},{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4222c05066b252b451f9c8c4730b5b60824ea66"},{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6462de75d2e370c7e74dcfb7b4ae79eb5a6a55ee"},{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b57e5ddbd89df3bc367463de3d2ca66f99a1a5e"},{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab2bfd7bec4f134b377ec42f513e90c35db94160"},{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"766738ecf2b819e54d38763c8d1c8ae6cff14b39"},{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ba62966461a8e3cc593b62c56ec62eb2d80436d"},{"version":"18bcbcfe9ca2308ebffb40068b51803da9315d97","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62fc8eb1b1481051f7bab4aa93d79809053dd09f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.25","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.25"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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