# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80677"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:49:15.507Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:32.494Z"
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-2026-80677"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80677.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80677"
title: "driver core: use READ_ONCE() for dev-\u003edriver in dev_has_sync_state()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndriver core: use READ_ONCE() for dev-\u003edriver in dev_has_sync_state()\n\ndev_has_sync_state() reads dev-\u003edriver twice without holding\ndevice_lock() -- once for the NULL check and once to dereference\n-\u003esync_state. Some callers only hold device_links_write_lock, which\ndoesn't prevent a concurrent unbind from clearing dev-\u003edriver via\ndevice_unbind_cleanup().\n\nFix it by reading dev-\u003edriver exactly once with READ_ONCE(), pairing\nwith the WRITE_ONCE() in device_set_driver()."
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