# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80622"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:41.744Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:30.961Z"
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-2026-80622"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80622.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80622"
title: "char: tlclk: fix use-after-free in tlclk_cleanup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nchar: tlclk: fix use-after-free in tlclk_cleanup()\n\nThis patch improves the module cleanup process in the tlclk driver to\nprevent potential use-after-free and race conditions.\n\nCurrently, the file_operations structure does not specify the .owner\nfield, which could allow the module to be unloaded while user-space\nprocesses are still interacting with the device. Additionally, the\ntlclk_cleanup() function frees the alarm_events memory before ensuring\nthat blocked processes in the waitqueue are fully awakened and that the\nswitchover_timer has completed.\n\nTo address these cases, this patch:\n- Sets '.owner = THIS_MODULE' in tlclk_fops to safely defer module\n  unloading while the device is in use.\n- Updates tlclk_cleanup() to explicitly wake up all blocked readers\n  (wake_up_all), properly release hardware I/O regions, and safely\n  delete the timer (timer_delete_sync) prior to freeing memory."
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