# 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-2026-98766"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:47:59.061Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:56:40.833Z"
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-2026-98766"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98766.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98766"
title: "usb: gadget: aspeed-vhub: cancel wake work on device removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: aspeed-vhub: cancel wake work on device removal\n\nwake_work is armed from the gadget .wakeup callback to resume suspended\ndownstream ports, and it is never cancelled in ast_vhub_remove(), so a\nwork item queued before or during removal can run after devm has freed\nvhub and its ports, a use-after-free.\n\nCancelling the work alone is not sufficient: usb_gadget_wakeup() takes\nno lock and the unbind path never clears wakeup_en, so a remote-wakeup\nrequest in flight on another CPU can re-arm the work after the cancel\nand before vhub is freed.\n\nast_vhub_del_dev() already clears d-\u003eregistered under vhub-\u003elock before\nunregistering the gadget. Refuse the wakeup in ast_vhub_udc_wakeup()\nonce d-\u003eregistered is clear: the check and the schedule_work() are then\natomic against the unbind, so a wakeup that passed before the flag was\ncleared is drained by the cancel_work_sync() after the del_dev loop,\nand one that arrives later returns without arming. Also move INIT_WORK()\nto the top of ast_vhub_probe(), since the probe error path reuses\nast_vhub_remove() and would otherwise cancel a never-initialized work\nitem.\n\nThis issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool."
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