CVE-2026-98945
Received
Received - Intake
Use-After-Free in Linux Kernel HID Steam Driver
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-98945, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-23
Last updated on: 2026-10-23
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
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.
CVSS Scores
EPSS Scores
| Probability: | |
| Percentile: |
Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
| Linux | Linux | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
| Linux | Linux | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
| Linux | Linux | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
| Linux | Linux | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
| Linux | Linux | 0 |
| Linux | Linux | 0 |
| Linux | Linux | 0 |
| Linux | Linux | 0 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
