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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68372" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:50.292Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:04:17.570Z" 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-2026-68372" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68372.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68372" title: "usb: core: port: Deattach Type-C connector on component unbind" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: core: port: Deattach Type-C connector on component unbind\n\nconnector_unbind() is the mirror of connector_bind(), but it is missing\nthe symmetric call to typec_deattach() that connector_bind() makes via:\n\n if (port_dev-\u003echild)\n typec_attach(port_dev-\u003econnector, &port_dev-\u003echild-\u003edev);\n\nWhen a Thunderbolt dock is unplugged, two teardown paths race:\n\n1. The component framework calls connector_unbind() first, which sets\n port_dev-\u003econnector = NULL without calling typec_deattach(). This\n leaves port-\u003eusb2_dev/port-\u003eusb3_dev in struct typec_port pointing at\n the USB device that is about to be freed.\n\n2. usb_disconnect() then calls typec_deattach(port_dev-\u003econnector, ...),\n but port_dev-\u003econnector is already NULL, so the call is a no-op and\n port-\u003eusb2_dev is never cleared.\n\n3. Concurrently, UCSI detects a PD partner-disconnect event and calls\n typec_unregister_partner(), which reads port-\u003eusb2_dev (now a dangling\n pointer to freed memory) and passes it to typec_partner_unlink_device()\n -\u003e sysfs_remove_link() -\u003e dev_name() on the freed device, corrupting\n the typec/UCSI partner state.\n\nThis corruption leaves the Thunderbolt tunnel in an inconsistent state on\nthe next dock hot-plug. On affected hardware the dock's I225/igc NIC fails\nto enumerate: AER fires a slot reset while the igc driver is still\ninitialising (\"PCIe link lost\"), and the subsequent igc_reset attempt hits\nigc_rd32 on an already-detached device:\n\n igc 0000:2e:00.0 eth0: PCIe link lost, device now detached\n igc: Failed to read reg 0x0!\n WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 129 at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c:7005\n igc_rd32+0xa4/0xc0 [igc]\n Call Trace:\n igc_disable_pcie_master+0x16/0xa0 [igc]\n igc_reset_hw_base+0x14/0x170 [igc]\n igc_reset+0x63/0x110 [igc]\n igc_io_slot_reset+0x9e/0xd0 [igc]\n report_slot_reset+0x5d/0xc0\n pcie_do_recovery+0x209/0x400\n aer_isr_one_error_type+0x235/0x430\n aer_isr+0x4e/0x80\n irq_thread+0xf4/0x1f0\n\n4. UCSI later handles the PD partner-disconnect and calls\n typec_unregister_partner(), which still sees the stale port-\u003eusb2_dev\n and tries to remove its sysfs link a second time:\n\n kernfs: can not remove 'typec', no directory\n WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 55 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1706 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xe9/0xf0\n Workqueue: events ucsi_handle_connector_change [typec_ucsi]\n Call Trace:\n sysfs_remove_link+0x19/0x50\n typec_unregister_partner+0x6e/0x120 [typec]\n ucsi_unregister_partner+0x107/0x150 [typec_ucsi]\n ucsi_handle_connector_change+0x3ec/0x490 [typec_ucsi]\n process_one_work+0x18e/0x3e0\n worker_thread+0x2e3/0x420\n kthread+0x10a/0x230\n ret_from_fork+0x121/0x140\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n With worse timing the same stale pointer is dereferenced after the\n backing memory is freed, turning the warning into a use-after-free.\n\nFix the asymmetry: call typec_deattach() before clearing\nport_dev-\u003econnector, matching what connector_bind() does on the bind side.\ntypec_partner_deattach() is already protected by port-\u003epartner_link_lock,\nso it serialises safely with the concurrent typec_unregister_partner() path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"11110783f5ea866318831a56353c6f1c3fc0d8ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78d361e60caf1999d51bda0e1b1004f5d39fcfbc"},{"version":"11110783f5ea866318831a56353c6f1c3fc0d8ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7714fb896ed308cf13d32d317040adc4f200b8e4"},{"version":"11110783f5ea866318831a56353c6f1c3fc0d8ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e00109b5adf71635919248e9ab6300a662e6a3e8"},{"version":"11110783f5ea866318831a56353c6f1c3fc0d8ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0b291fe117964037e0ba382eff4bb365d531c3a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"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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