MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-90045 (CVSS 7.8)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 16, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 0.1%
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: gadget: ffs: fix mm lifetime handling io_data stores a pointer to the submitting task's mm_struct, but does not currently hold a reference to it while async requests are pending. This can result in a use-after-free if the task exits before completion handling finishes. Take a reference with mmgrab() when queuing the read request and release it with mmdrop() on request completion.
Technical details
CVSS
7.8
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:LowUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High
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