# 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-2026-80952"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:21.868Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:36.170Z"
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-2026-80952"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80952.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80952"
title: "i3c: master: Fix info leak and UAF in device unregister path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni3c: master: Fix info leak and UAF in device unregister path\n\ni3c_master_unregister_i3c_devs() clears i3cdev-\u003edev-\u003edesc before\ncalling device_unregister().  During device_unregister(),\ndevice_del() emits a KOBJ_REMOVE uevent and unbinds the driver while\nthe device descriptor is still expected to be valid.  As a result,\ni3c_device_uevent() and a racing modalias_show() can observe a NULL\ndesc and fall back to an uninitialized stack struct i3c_device_info,\nleaking kernel stack contents in the generated modalias.  Driver\n.remove() callbacks may also encounter an unexpected NULL desc during\nunbind.\n\nKeep desc valid until device_unregister() has completed.  Since\ndevice_unregister() drops the device reference and may free the device,\ntake an extra reference with get_device() before unregistering.  Clear\ndesc afterwards and release the extra reference with put_device().\nThis preserves the release-time invariant that desc must be NULL while\navoiding both the information leak and a potential use-after-free from\nwriting desc after the device has been released."
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