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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64584" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-06T07:06:25.953Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:29:12.890Z" 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-2026-64584" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64584.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64584" title: "usb: gadget: f_midi: cancel pending IN work before freeing the midi object" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_midi: cancel pending IN work before freeing the midi object\n\nThe f_midi driver embeds a work item (midi-\u003ework) whose handler,\nf_midi_in_work(), dereferences the enclosing struct f_midi through\ncontainer_of(). This work is armed from two sites: f_midi_complete(),\non a normal IN-endpoint completion, and f_midi_in_trigger(), on an ALSA\nrawmidi output-stream start.\n\nNeither f_midi_disable() nor f_midi_unbind() cancels midi-\u003ework.\nf_midi_disable() only disables the endpoints and drains the in_req_fifo;\nit does not synchronize the work item, and the sound card is released\nasynchronously to the final free of the midi object.\n\nThe midi object is reference-counted (midi-\u003efree_ref) and is freed in\nf_midi_free() only once both the usb_function reference and the rawmidi\nprivate_data reference have been dropped. In f_midi_unbind(),\nf_midi_disable() runs before the sound card is released, so while the\nUSB endpoints are already disabled the rawmidi device is still usable by\nan open substream. A concurrent userspace write on such a substream can\nreach f_midi_in_trigger() and queue midi-\u003ework again after\nf_midi_disable() has returned. A work item armed this way may still be\npending when the last reference drops and f_midi_free() proceeds to\nkfree(midi), letting f_midi_in_work() dereference the struct after it\nhas been freed, a use-after-free.\n\nFor this reason cancelling midi-\u003ework in f_midi_disable() would not be\nsufficient: the ALSA trigger path can rearm the work after disable()\nreturns. Cancelling at the refcount-zero free site is the boundary\nafter which neither arming source can survive, because by then both\nreferences that keep the midi object alive have been dropped: the USB\nendpoints are already disabled and the rawmidi device has been released.\n\nFix this by calling cancel_work_sync(&midi-\u003ework) in the refcount-zero\nblock of f_midi_free(), before the embedded work_struct is freed along\nwith the rest of the structure. opts-\u003elock is a sleeping mutex, so\ncalling cancel_work_sync() under it is permitted, and the handler takes\nmidi-\u003etransmit_lock rather than opts-\u003elock, so no self-deadlock can\noccur while it waits for a running instance of the work to finish.\n\nThis issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3635523e9b96213969693c320302d536774d8e9b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f3c6f2c38062703d3dc7f86958bb0790c6959add"},{"version":"8653d71ce3763aedcf3d2331f59beda3fecd79e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df18150126f66817e4d3f79f309e9c92d6ff384e"},{"version":"8653d71ce3763aedcf3d2331f59beda3fecd79e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"620955b222c47332297d6bf38f78541aa699238a"},{"version":"8653d71ce3763aedcf3d2331f59beda3fecd79e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"380b4bef46c2eb260c7a9c6bb2c5be33ce5a38f9"},{"version":"8653d71ce3763aedcf3d2331f59beda3fecd79e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87bc316dd6fc90072297c635e10b9aa6075ecda1"},{"version":"8653d71ce3763aedcf3d2331f59beda3fecd79e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f45089eaad0a083d71d84ff175741d7e157d9b69"},{"version":"8653d71ce3763aedcf3d2331f59beda3fecd79e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac9a51d910bb7465c554c45320cb6c09f3d0b49d"},{"version":"8653d71ce3763aedcf3d2331f59beda3fecd79e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5650c18d93a1db7e27cb5a40b394747eb4686d5b"},{"version":"89019ab7a64fcdf98a2ba7799e5c6aff58d4a05d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.265"},{"version":"5.4.291","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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