{"cve":"CVE-2026-98645","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-18T16:17:17.757","modified":"2026-10-19T10:19:28.877","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown\n\nwinwing_init_ff() passes the driver's private data, allocated with\ndevm_kzalloc() in winwing_probe(), as the effect context to\ninput_ff_create_memless(). The memoryless force-feedback core takes\nownership of that pointer and frees it with kfree() from\ninput_ff_destroy() (ml_ff_destroy()) when the input device is\ndestroyed.\n\nFreeing a devm-managed allocation with kfree() is an invalid free, and\nthe same object is then released again by devres when the HID device is\ntorn down, a double free. As the allocation also embeds the LED class\ndevices, their timers and work item live on freed memory and the slab\ngets corrupted. This triggers on unbind, rmmod, hot-unplug and on system\nsuspend, where the firmware cache walks the now-corrupt devres list.\nKASAN reports:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in input_ff_destroy\n  Allocated by task N:\n    winwing_probe\n\nPass NULL as the memless context instead and fetch the driver data from\nthe input device in winwing_play_effect(): the HID core already stores\nthe hid_device as the input device's drvdata. The force-feedback core\nthen owns nothing that it must not free.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T23:00:53.604569364+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-98645","score":0.00189,"percentile":0.085,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}