CVE-2026-43007
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Race Condition in QAIC Driver Leads to System Hang
Publication date: 2026-05-01
Last updated on: 2026-05-07
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
accel/qaic: Handle DBC deactivation if the owner went away
When a DBC is released, the device sends a QAIC_TRANS_DEACTIVATE_FROM_DEV
transaction to the host over the QAIC_CONTROL MHI channel. QAIC handles
this by calling decode_deactivate() to release the resources allocated for
that DBC. Since that handling is done in the qaic_manage_ioctl() context,
if the user goes away before receiving and handling the deactivation, the
host will be out-of-sync with the DBCs available for use, and the DBC
resources will not be freed unless the device is removed. If another user
loads and requests to activate a network, then the device assigns the same
DBC to that network, QAIC will "indefinitely" wait for dbc->in_use = false,
leading the user process to hang.
As a solution to this, handle QAIC_TRANS_DEACTIVATE_FROM_DEV transactions
that are received after the user has gone away.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0 |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.13 (inc) to 6.18.22 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.19 (inc) to 6.19.12 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.7 (inc) to 6.12.81 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.4 (inc) to 6.6.134 (exc) |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-415 | The product calls free() twice on the same memory address. |
