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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72073" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:24.676Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:44:20.898Z" 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-2026-72073" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72073.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72073" title: "mmc: vub300: fix use-after-free on probe failure" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmmc: vub300: fix use-after-free on probe failure\n\nThe vub300 driver lifetime-manages its controller state using\nvub300-\u003ekref, with vub300_delete() freeing the mmc host when the last\nreference is dropped. The probe error path after the inactivity timer has\nbeen armed still bypasses that lifetime rule, however, and falls through\nto mmc_free_host() directly if mmc_add_host() fails.\n\nThe race window is between arming the inactivity timer and reaching the\nprobe error unwind after mmc_add_host() fails:\n\n probe thread timer/workqueue\n ------------ ---------------\n kref_init(&vub300-\u003ekref) ref = 1\n kref_get(&vub300-\u003ekref) ref = 2, timer ref\n add_timer(inactivity_timer) fires after one second\n |\n | race window\n |\u003c----------------------------------------------------\u003e\n |\n mmc_add_host(mmc)\n inactivity timer fires\n vub300_queue_dead_work()\n kref_get() ref = 3\n queue_work(deadwork)\n mmc_add_host() fails\n timer_delete_sync()\n mmc_free_host(mmc)\n frees vub300\n deadwork runs\n use-after-free\n\nThe inactivity timeout is one second, so this would require\nmmc_add_host() to both fail and take more than one second to do so. This\nis unlikely to happen in practice, but the error path is still wrong.\n\ntimer_delete_sync() only waits for the timer callback itself. It does\nnot flush deadwork that the callback may already have queued. As a\nresult, queued deadwork can still hold a kref while the probe error path\ndirectly frees the backing mmc host, including the vub300 storage.\n\nFix this by using the same lifetime mechanism as disconnect. Clear\nvub300-\u003einterface so that the timer callback and any queued deadwork\nreturn early and drop their references, then drop the initial probe\nreference and return without falling through to err_free_host." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"face65f80c6946c631ca3490b4ebd2c016a4fd2c"},{"version":"0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c66653dac9b25272d5fd4ed42a34aa5249e16df"},{"version":"0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b82af744e06cd741938c3da54fdbe564a7e52d9"},{"version":"0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"618cf6b139503ec18ef93ffd663396aaf99b763a"},{"version":"0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3b5f242997a3be7404112fd48784881560aea57"},{"version":"41ed46bdbd2878cd6567abe0974a445f8b1b8ec8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"25f05d762ca5e1c685002a53dd44f68e78ca3feb","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a46e681151bbdacdf6b89ee8c4e5bad0555142bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3b29f8769d32016b2d89183db4d80c7a71b7e35e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3049a3b927a40d89d4582ff1033cd7953be773c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"afc898019e7bf18c5eb7a0ac19852fcb1b341b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c9e85979b59cb86f0a15defa8199d740e2b36b90","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2044b2ea77945f372ef161d1bbf814e471767ff2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","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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