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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-99039" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:21:57.421Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:21:57.421Z" 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-2026-99039" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99039.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99039" title: "memstick: core: wait for request completion before freeing card" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmemstick: core: wait for request completion before freeing card\n\nIn memstick_alloc_card() and memstick_set_rw_addr(),\nwait_for_completion_timeout() is used to wait for device identification\nand address configuration requests to complete.\n\nThe memstick subsystem does not provide an abort or cancellation\ncallback in struct memstick_host for in-flight requests. If\nwait_for_completion_timeout() expires (for instance, when a USB transfer\nor command retry is delayed), memstick_alloc_card() returns an error and\nfrees the memstick_dev structure via kfree(card).\n\nHowever, the host controller driver (such as rtsx_usb_ms) is still\nrunning the request asynchronously in worker context. When the transfer\neventually finishes, the driver writes into host-\u003ereq-\u003edata, which\npoints to memory inside the already freed card structure. This leads to\na KASAN slab-use-after-free write:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ms_read_bytes+0x8fe/0x990\n Write of size 1 at addr ffff88813c188079 by task kworker/1:5/5239\n Workqueue: events rtsx_usb_ms_handle_req\n Call Trace:\n ms_read_bytes+0x8fe/0x990 drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c:450\n rtsx_usb_ms_issue_cmd drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c:477 [inline]\n rtsx_usb_ms_handle_req+0x557/0x1a00 drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c:531\n process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396\n worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560\n kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436\n\n Allocated by task 1662:\n memstick_alloc_card drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:383 [inline]\n memstick_check+0x2c1/0x10d0 drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:452\n process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396\n\n Freed by task 1662:\n kfree+0x20c/0x650 mm/slub.c:6792\n memstick_alloc_card drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:420 [inline]\n memstick_check+0x72b/0x10d0 drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:452\n process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396\n\nHost controller drivers (rtsx_usb_ms, jmb38x_ms, tifm_ms, r592) already\nimplement their own hardware and bus timeouts, and callers in\nmspro_block and ms_block already rely on wait_for_completion()\nunconditionally.\n\nReplace wait_for_completion_timeout() with wait_for_completion() in\nmemstick_set_rw_addr() and memstick_alloc_card() so that the card\nstructure is never freed while an asynchronous request is in flight." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3ab92542475d59ae685cbb294e70ca4d0ba38e9"},{"version":"baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"810580cf60edc75c9891c2de3225e4cda78e4d9f"},{"version":"baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2795c50144d528dabc2cf2fd53c0f0c63a823a1"},{"version":"baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3af81770e2011c6ac7bb597a4af2e4f3591f928c"},{"version":"baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa0a37b5024d921e96ac4f8f487c8bfbf1f1a582"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.25","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.25"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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