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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74441" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:26:49.359Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:47:17.900Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74441" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74441.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74441" title: "usb: typec: ucsi: Fix race condition and ordering in port unregistration" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: typec: ucsi: Fix race condition and ordering in port unregistration\n\nA synchronization issue exists during port unregistration where pending\npartner work items can race against workqueue destruction, leading to\nuse-after-free conditions:\n\n cros_ec_ucsi cros_ec_ucsi.3.auto: error -ETIMEDOUT: PPM init failed\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0x83/0x4a0\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n __cfi_delayed_work_timer_fn+0x10/0x10\n run_timer_softirq+0x3b6/0xbd0\n sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0x110\n irq_exit_rcu+0x18d/0x330\n fred_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5e/0x80\n\nFix this by ensuring strict ordering and proper serialization during\nteardown:\n\n1. Move ucsi_unregister_partner() to the beginning of the teardown\nsequence and protect it under the connector mutex lock.\n2. Ensure all pending partner tasks are explicitly flushed and finished\nbefore the workqueue is destroyed.\n3. Switch from mod_delayed_work() to a cancel_delayed_work() and\nqueue_delayed_work() sequence. This guarantees that items currently marked\nas pending won't be scheduled an additional time, preventing a double\nrelease of resources which leads to the following crash:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0xdead000000000122: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n Workqueue: cros_ec_ucsi.3.auto-con2 ucsi_poll_worker\n RIP: 0010:ucsi_poll_worker+0x65/0x1e0\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n process_scheduled_works+0x218/0x6d0\n worker_thread+0x188/0x3f0\n __cfi_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0x226/0x2a0\n\nTo ensure these rules are applied identically across both the normal\nteardown and the ucsi_init() error paths, consolidate the cleanup logic\ninto a new helper, ucsi_unregister_port()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b63c680ff605f60f056e5f2c323f1a602aee182"},{"version":"b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07f8aaffee705e552c1f723ac8bf7eb137ad59c2"},{"version":"b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11483d80267db97fbe49f2df66385434256cc3b0"},{"version":"b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f7b3728dd9011c915cbeaea77274ebe8366550d"},{"version":"b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc7a0f721123ea260a42f1ded06dab844ba49434"},{"version":"b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7aa7d4bf9d3fa9a6a47b640ad103ab433b7ff261"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","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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