{"cve":"CVE-2026-98662","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-18T16:17:19.507","modified":"2026-10-21T13:21:35.477","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: light: gp2ap020a00f: drain irq_work after free_irq\n\nThe threaded IRQ handler queues data->work through irq_work_queue() so\nthe trigger is polled from a per-CPU context.  free_irq() does not flush\nan irq_work the handler already queued, so after gp2ap020a00f_remove()\nreturns that work may still run and call iio_trigger_poll() on data->trig,\nwhich the devm cleanup has already freed, causing a use-after-free.\n\nAdd irq_work_sync(&data->work) after free_irq() in remove() and in the\nprobe error path, mirroring commit 78601726d4a5 (\"iio: trigger: sysfs:\nfix use-after-free on remove\").\n\nFound by an in-house static analysis tool, confirmed by manual review.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63213927b141085b6c8719b8037dab3074b7e0fe","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85c20d1cf3f01a506605a16c2f9ce23b9c8b114f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1769877ff52a4f1bfb9ca535d1b5113808bd602","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a36814b9fe00970116d30c3143d81e7425c4d334","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc71400bc965c0d3894a38ead3d71243400c2d5e"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-22T16:41:11.231219466+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-98662","score":0.00168,"percentile":0.05973,"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."]}