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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-81008" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:59.405Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:33.532Z" 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-2026-81008" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-81008.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81008" title: "interconnect: Fix use after free in icc_get() and of_icc_get_by_index()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ninterconnect: Fix use after free in icc_get() and of_icc_get_by_index()\n\nIn of_icc_get_by_index() and icc_get(), if the dynamic allocation for\npath-\u003ename fails via kasprintf(), the error handling path directly\ncalls kfree(path) to free the path object and returns an error.\n\nHowever, prior to this point, path_find() calls path_init(), which\nalready links the path's requests into the req_list of the respective\ninterconnect nodes via hlist_add_head(). Directly invoking kfree(path)\nleaves dangling pointers in the hlist. A subsequent call to icc_get()\nor icc_set_bw() will traverse or modify these corrupted lists, triggering\na slab use afterfree.\n\nKASAN report showing the vulnerability when reproducing via debugfs:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in path_find+0x6f8/0xcfc\n Write of size 8 at addr fff000000d43f748 by task sh/1\n ...\n Call trace:\n kasan_report+0xac/0xfc\n path_find+0x6f8/0xcfc\n icc_get+0x148/0x380\n icc_get_set+0xf8/0x2d0\n ...\n Freed by task 1:\n kfree+0x1a0/0x4a4\n icc_get+0x2cc/0x380\n icc_get_set+0xf8/0x2d0\n\nFix this by replacing kfree(path) with the proper teardown function,\nicc_put(path), which safely removes the requests from the req_list using\nhlist_del() and drops the provider usage references before freeing the\nmemory.\n\nAdditionally, in icc_get(), ensure that the icc_lock mutex is released\nprior to calling icc_put(path) to avoid a deadlock, as icc_put()\ninternally acquires the same lock." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03c3af594dea9196cf6ca70d914b42aa8c873c35"},{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4d73decdb9a44a248b1cbd04ed6f334df544d9c"},{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a671125d4228357e5b929733c4593d27a273749"},{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fedea72e8f312fe7d0c6cb19353e61d2d5643b11"},{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4e9aa7907ade87d1d96853d14e05dcf682f8363"},{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db8147c5d5ad2cfa21c2be566f95981b41b05de6"},{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d715d19cfcfe99f361adb05cefc143a95d400b87"},{"version":"3791163602f7140011a8dc1691cfe6ec0cb1ef07","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25c7e242aca084fdc1098248194032317dca625d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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