CVE-2026-98945

CVSS 7.8 (high) · published 2026-10-23

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.

Source: NVD CVE-2026-98945

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

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