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CVE-2026-98645

Linux: HID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
NoneNot scored
ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)0.19%Chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of CVEs. Scored 23 Oct 2026FIRST EPSS
Fixed in2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923Fixed versionCVE List
Published18 Oct 2026Updated 19 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

  • 2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923LinuxCVE List

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown

winwing_init_ff() passes the driver's private data, allocated with devm_kzalloc() in winwing_probe(), as the effect context to input_ff_create_memless(). The memoryless force-feedback core takes ownership of that pointer and frees it with kfree() from input_ff_destroy() (ml_ff_destroy()) when the input device is destroyed.

Freeing a devm-managed allocation with kfree() is an invalid free, and the same object is then released again by devres when the HID device is torn down, a double free. As the allocation also embeds the LED class devices, their timers and work item live on freed memory and the slab gets corrupted. This triggers on unbind, rmmod, hot-unplug and on system suspend, where the firmware cache walks the now-corrupt devres list. KASAN reports:

BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in input_ff_destroy Allocated by task N: winwing_probe

Pass NULL as the memless context instead and fetch the driver data from the input device in winwing_play_effect(): the HID core already stores the hid_device as the input device's drvdata. The force-feedback core then owns nothing that it must not free.

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 6

  • Linuxaffected: 42d020b54edc57d03749bed75976f1e962a9fbfa before 2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 42d020b54edc57d03749bed75976f1e962a9fbfa before a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 7.1CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 7.1CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.9 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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