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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89625" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:22.097Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:48:02.232Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89625" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89625.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89625" title: "HID: sony: fix UAF of ghl_poke_timer / ghl_urb at driver unbind" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: sony: fix UAF of ghl_poke_timer / ghl_urb at driver unbind\n\nFor GHL (Guitar Hero Live) dongles, sony_probe() arms a periodic timer:\nghl_magic_poke() (the timer callback) submits sc-\u003eghl_urb, and the URB\ncompletion ghl_magic_poke_cb() re-arms the timer with mod_timer().\n\nsony_remove() drained the timer with timer_delete_sync() and then freed\nthe URB with usb_free_urb():\n\n\ttimer_delete_sync(&sc-\u003eghl_poke_timer);\n\tusb_free_urb(sc-\u003eghl_urb);\n\ntimer_delete_sync() does not block re-arming, and while the URB is in\nflight the timer is not pending, so the sync delete is a no-op. A URB\ncompletion that runs after the delete re-arms the timer, and usb_free_urb()\nonly drops a reference -- it does not kill an in-flight URB. sc is\nallocated with devm_kzalloc() and freed once sony_remove() returns, so the\nre-armed ghl_poke_timer (embedded in sc) then fires on freed memory, a\nuse-after-free from timer softirq. This is a disconnect/rmmod race.\n\nPoison the URB first, then shut the timer down, before freeing the URB.\nusb_poison_urb() kills any in-flight URB and permanently rejects further\nsubmissions, so a poke timer that is still pending cannot re-submit the\nURB from ghl_magic_poke() in the window before timer_shutdown_sync() runs.\nusb_kill_urb() would not suffice: it only cancels the in-flight URB and\nleaves it submittable once it returns, so the pending timer could\nre-submit it and put a fresh URB in flight over the freed sc.\ntimer_shutdown_sync() then drains any last callback and blocks re-arming.\nThe probe error path is unaffected: it is only reached before the timer\nis armed.\n\nReproduced under KASAN on next-20260710 via dummy_hcd + raw-gadget\nemulation of the GHL PS4 dongle (VID 0x1430 / PID 0x07bb): hid-sony binds\nand arms the poke timer, the poke URB is held in flight, the driver is\nunbound (freeing sc), then the URB is released. The completion re-arms the\ntimer on the freed sc, and the re-armed timer fires ~8 s later:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ghl_magic_poke+0x98/0xb0\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810b02fd50 by task swapper/0/0\n ghl_magic_poke+0x98/0xb0\n call_timer_fn+0x35/0x2b0\n __run_timers+0x69c/0x9a0\n run_timer_softirq+0x173/0x2a0\n Allocated by task 169: sony_probe\n Freed by task 338: devres_release_group \u003c- hid_device_remove (sony_remove)\n\nFound by 0sec (https://0sec.ai) using automated source analysis." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cc894ac553605c9193a7a94372ff2f8af5766f46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56ef23198bdd51644372b1a9917802544b30987a"},{"version":"cc894ac553605c9193a7a94372ff2f8af5766f46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e3d42ef008f0931e3878b4f1b046b6e45a95bde"},{"version":"cc894ac553605c9193a7a94372ff2f8af5766f46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"114a58640aaf3c2eb97b5b01c75ab5e541d15d9c"},{"version":"cc894ac553605c9193a7a94372ff2f8af5766f46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3155dc327344d286f17345cd371be05e255a4328"},{"version":"cc894ac553605c9193a7a94372ff2f8af5766f46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a26705bd2e2728833e7a538ce91e58a5eeff496a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","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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