# 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-2026-98773"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:09.093Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:56:48.532Z"
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-2026-98773"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98773.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98773"
title: "USB: cdc-acm: skip URB restart in port_shutdown if disconnected"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: cdc-acm: skip URB restart in port_shutdown if disconnected\n\nacm_port_shutdown() is called from the tty-port machinery whenever the\nlast user closes the port.  acm_disconnect() sets acm-\u003edisconnected and\ncalls tty_port_tty_vhangup(), which eventually triggers port_shutdown().\nAt that point acm_disconnect() has already called acm_poison_urbs() and\nis about to free the control and read URBs.\n\nHowever, acm_port_shutdown() unconditionally calls acm_unpoison_urbs()\nand, when the ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL quirk is set, immediately re-submits the\nctrlurb and all read URBs.  If the concurrent acm_disconnect() then\nfrees those URBs and their DMA buffers while they are in-flight, the\nresult is a use-after-free in acm_ctrl_irq() or acm_read_bulk_callback()\naccessing the freed DMA memory.\n\nFix by checking acm-\u003edisconnected after draining the delayed anchor and\nreturning early: if we are in a disconnect path the URBs must remain\npoisoned and must not be resubmitted.\n\nThe early return is placed after the delayed-anchor drain loop because\nthat loop only cancels write-side accounting (wb-\u003euse = false and\nautopm counter) and does not touch the hardware path."
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