CVE-2026-98945
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: steam: Rearrange teardown…
- Risk score
- 59/100
- CVSS
- 7.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 23 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: steam: Rearrange teardown sequence This fixes a narrow window during the teardown sequence where callbacks could still be scheduled during cleanup that would then have a dangling pointer to the now-freed steam struct. This also puts work cancelin…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.8 high
- On your watchlist: linux kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81a8209c09f9be7eef860ca6cc154749a6b4d243
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86724f4bcf6049c3a322f7a7b1f968210059c46a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5ea938ff776306798d3a11485c2475034f92131
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2587923d50c8b141ce0ccb284c714cf6054d6a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddce9641ce924ed91ec8304577e463823a29ffaf
Original description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: steam: Rearrange teardown sequence This fixes a narrow window during the teardown sequence where callbacks could still be scheduled during cleanup that would then have a dangling pointer to the now-freed steam struct. This also puts work canceling for rumble and mode switch in steam_unregister, as that shouldn't persist while the client hdev is open.
Last activity 23 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.