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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98694" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:46:18.654Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:43.497Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98694" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98694.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98694" title: "thunderbolt: Fix KASAN reported use-after-free when request is canceled" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthunderbolt: Fix KASAN reported use-after-free when request is canceled\n\nAlan reported that when doing stress testing sometimes KASAN notices\nuse-after-free during control channel operation (stripped down keeping\nthe relevant parts):\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tb_cfg_request_sync+0x240/0x250 [thunderbolt]\n Read of size 24 at addr ffff88811067f290 by task kworker/u40:2/1760\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n tb_cfg_request_sync+0x240/0x250 [thunderbolt]\n tb_cfg_read_raw+0x367/0x510 [thunderbolt]\n tb_cfg_read+0xec/0x240 [thunderbolt]\n tb_port_get_link_generation+0x258/0x420 [thunderbolt]\n tb_usb3_consumed_bandwidth+0x1c1/0x2c0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_tunnel_consumed_bandwidth+0xfd/0x910 [thunderbolt]\n tb_available_bandwidth+0x5f2/0xeb0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_recalc_estimated_bandwidth+0x2a0/0x1bc0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_handle_dp_bandwidth_request+0x1897/0x5e20 [thunderbolt]\n process_one_work+0x675/0x1230\n worker_thread+0x5e6/0xf70\n kthread+0x365/0x470\n ret_from_fork+0x54d/0x710\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 1760:\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1ee/0x550\n tb_cfg_read_raw+0x1d3/0x510 [thunderbolt]\n tb_cfg_read+0xec/0x240 [thunderbolt]\n tb_port_get_link_generation+0x258/0x420 [thunderbolt]\n tb_usb3_consumed_bandwidth+0x1c1/0x2c0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_tunnel_consumed_bandwidth+0xfd/0x910 [thunderbolt]\n tb_available_bandwidth+0x5f2/0xeb0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_recalc_estimated_bandwidth+0x2a0/0x1bc0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_handle_dp_bandwidth_request+0x1897/0x5e20 [thunderbolt]\n process_one_work+0x675/0x1230\n worker_thread+0x5e6/0xf70\n kthread+0x365/0x470\n ret_from_fork+0x54d/0x710\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n Freed by task 926:\n kfree+0x18f/0x4a0\n tb_cfg_request_put+0xb7/0xe0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_cfg_request_work+0x82/0x120 [thunderbolt]\n process_one_work+0x675/0x1230\n worker_thread+0x5e6/0xf70\n kthread+0x365/0x470\n ret_from_fork+0x54d/0x710\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n Second to last potentially related work creation:\n __queue_work+0x575/0xd00\n queue_work_on+0x77/0x80\n tb_cfg_request_cancel+0xc7/0x260 [thunderbolt]\n tb_cfg_request_sync+0x1f6/0x250 [thunderbolt]\n tb_cfg_read_raw+0x367/0x510 [thunderbolt]\n tb_cfg_read+0xec/0x240 [thunderbolt]\n tb_port_get_link_generation+0x258/0x420 [thunderbolt]\n tb_usb3_consumed_bandwidth+0x1c1/0x2c0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_tunnel_consumed_bandwidth+0xfd/0x910 [thunderbolt]\n tb_available_bandwidth+0x5f2/0xeb0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_recalc_estimated_bandwidth+0x2a0/0x1bc0 [thunderbolt]\n tb_handle_dp_bandwidth_request+0x1897/0x5e20 [thunderbolt]\n process_one_work+0x675/0x1230\n worker_thread+0x5e6/0xf70\n kthread+0x365/0x470\n ret_from_fork+0x54d/0x710\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nThe last stack trace is helpful because it shows that we are cancelling\na request and looking at tb_cfg_request_cancel() what might happen is\nthat tb_cfg_request_work() completes right before tb_cfg_request_cancel()\nstarts and because of this it will call schedule_work() queueing the\nsame work to run again. However, it is already removed from the\nrequest_queue and reference count is dropped so when\ntb_cfg_request_work() triggers again it will access memory that is\nalready released.\n\nFix this so that we first make sure a cancelled request is not handed\naway from tb_cfg_request_find() or scheduled to run. Then instead of\nrelying on the worker to clean up the request we will do it in\ntb_cfg_request_cancel() after the work is canceled from running. Make\ntb_cfg_request_dequeue() release the request only if it was actually\nremoved from the queue." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d7f781bfdbf4eb7c5706c9974b8bf6d3c82e69c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b70b9c41f240c42bf6e728034537c0fe60c16ef4"},{"version":"d7f781bfdbf4eb7c5706c9974b8bf6d3c82e69c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71b3c517e02af2c46ad58d4b3706b7c3cb24936d"},{"version":"d7f781bfdbf4eb7c5706c9974b8bf6d3c82e69c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f18faa3d3b810d60a3005ae1b1d1866faa67d343"},{"version":"d7f781bfdbf4eb7c5706c9974b8bf6d3c82e69c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08287212b622039212c972806f896f078dfd28e2"},{"version":"d7f781bfdbf4eb7c5706c9974b8bf6d3c82e69c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a02188ddc24b7872f0c5e0c5873f827318717803"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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