# 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-2026-90057"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:41.670Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:14.597Z"
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-2026-90057"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90057.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90057"
title: "slip: remove slip_hangup() to fix use-after-free in slip_receive_buf()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nslip: remove slip_hangup() to fix use-after-free in slip_receive_buf()\n\nJaeyoung Chung and Eulgyu Kim reported a slab-use-after-free read\nin slip_receive_buf() when racing against tty hangup.\n\ntty_ldisc_hangup() calls ld-\u003eops-\u003ehangup() while holding only\na read lock on tty-\u003eldisc_sem (via tty_ldisc_ref()).\nBecause slip_hangup() simply called slip_close(), it ran concurrently\nwith reader functions such as slip_receive_buf().\n\nslip_close() unregisters and frees the net device and its private\nstruct slip, causing concurrent reader threads in slip_receive_buf()\nto dereference freed memory.\n\nLine discipline close() is already guaranteed to be called under\nthe write lock of tty-\u003eldisc_sem during hangup processing\n(in tty_ldisc_reinit() or tty_ldisc_kill()).\n\nRemove slip_hangup() so teardown is serialized cleanly by slip_close()."
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