# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93050"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:40.360Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:04:45.286Z"
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-2026-93050"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93050.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93050"
title: "ipack: ipoctal: fix UAF, null-ptr-deref, and use-after-free in cleanup on remove"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipack: ipoctal: fix UAF, null-ptr-deref, and use-after-free in cleanup on remove\n\nThree issues arise when the device is removed while a tty session is\nstill active:\n\n1. UAF of struct ipoctal: the remove callback frees ipoctal via\n   kfree() while tty ops may still access it.  Fix by introducing\n   kref-based lifetime management — kref is taken in install() when\n   a tty is opened and released in cleanup() when the tty is finally\n   destroyed; remove() uses kref_put() instead of kfree().\n\n2. NULL dereference in ipoctal_write_tty(): __ipoctal_remove()\n   frees xmit_buf via tty_port_free_xmit_buf() while a userspace\n   process may still hold the tty fd and call write().  Fix by\n   checking for NULL xmit_buf in ipoctal_write_tty().\n\n3. UAF in ipoctal_cleanup(): ipack_put_carrier(ipoctal-\u003edev)\n   dereferences ipoctal-\u003edev after the ipack_device has been freed\n   by ipack_device_del().  Fix by caching ipoctal-\u003ecarrier_owner\n   during probe() and calling module_put() on the cached pointer\n   directly in cleanup(), avoiding any access to ipoctal-\u003edev.\n\nAlso introduce a \"removed\" flag in struct ipoctal, set at the start\nof __ipoctal_remove(), and checked in every tty op that accesses\nhardware resources (port_activate, write_tty, set_termios, hangup,\nshutdown).  This prevents page faults when devm_ioremap() regions\nare unmapped after remove() returns."
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