# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68214"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:33.539Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:31:42.193Z"
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-2026-68214"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68214.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68214"
title: "media: rtl2832: fix use-after-free in rtl2832_remove()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: rtl2832: fix use-after-free in rtl2832_remove()\n\ncancel_delayed_work_sync() is called before i2c_mux_del_adapters()\nin rtl2832_remove(). While the cancel waits for any running instance\nof i2c_gate_work to finish, it does not prevent the timer from being\nrescheduled by a concurrent thread.\n\nDuring probe, the r820t_attach() call attempts I2C transfers through\nthe mux adapter. These transfers go through i2c_mux_master_xfer(),\nwhich calls rtl2832_deselect() after the transfer completes,\nrescheduling i2c_gate_work via schedule_delayed_work(). If this\ntransfer is still in flight when rtl2832_remove() runs,\nrtl2832_deselect() can reschedule i2c_gate_work after it has been\ncancelled, causing a use-after-free when kfree(dev) is called.\n\nFix this by calling i2c_mux_del_adapters() before\ncancel_delayed_work_sync(). Once the mux adapter is unregistered, no\nnew I2C transfers can go through it, so rtl2832_deselect() can no\nlonger reschedule i2c_gate_work. The subsequent\ncancel_delayed_work_sync() is then guaranteed to be final."
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