In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipack: ipoctal: fix UAF, null-ptr-deref, and use-after-free in cleanup on remove Three issues arise when the device is removed while a tty session is still active: 1. UAF of struct ipoctal: the remove callback frees ipoctal via kfree() while tty ops may still access it. Fix by introducing kref-based lifetime management — kref is taken in install() when a tty is opened and released in cleanup() when the tty is finally destroyed; remove() uses kref_put() instead of kfree(). 2. NULL dereference in ipoctal_write_tty(): __ipoctal_remove() frees xmit_buf via tty_port_free_xmit_buf() while a userspace process may still hold the tty fd and call write(). Fix by checking for NULL xmit_buf in ipoctal_write_tty(). 3. UAF in ipoctal_cleanup(): ipack_put_carrier(ipoctal->dev) dereferences ipoctal->dev after the ipack_device has been freed by ipack_device_del(). Fix by caching ipoctal->carrier_owner during probe() and calling...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipack: ipoctal: fix UAF, null-ptr-deref, and use-after-free in cleanup on remove Three issues arise when the device is removed while a tty session is still active: 1. UAF of struct ipoctal: the remove callback frees ipoctal via kfree() while tty ops may still access it. Fix by introducing kref-based lifetime management — kref is taken in install() when a tty is opened and released in cleanup() when the tty is finally destroyed; remove() uses kref_put() instead of kfree(). 2. NULL dereference in ipoctal_write_tty(): __ipoctal_remove() frees xmit_buf via tty_port_free_xmit_buf() while a userspace process may still hold the tty fd and call write(). Fix by checking for NULL xmit_buf in ipoctal_write_tty(). 3. UAF in ipoctal_cleanup(): ipack_put_carrier(ipoctal->dev) dereferences ipoctal->dev after the ipack_device has been freed by ipack_device_del(). Fix by caching ipoctal->carrier_own

ipack: ipoctal: fix UAF, null-ptr-deref, and use-after-free in cleanup on remove

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i ...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipack: ipoctal: fix UAF, null-ptr-deref, and use-after-free in cleanup on remove Three issues arise when the device is removed while a tty session is still active: 1. UAF of struct ipoctal: the remove callback frees ipoctal via kfree() while tty ops may still access it. Fix by introducing kref-based lifetime management — kref is taken in install() when a tty is opened and released in cleanup() when the tty is finally destroyed; remove() uses kref_put() instead of kfree(). 2. NULL dereference in ipoctal_write_tty(): __ipoctal_remove() frees xmit_buf via tty_port_free_xmit_buf() while a userspace process may still hold the tty fd and call write(). Fix by checking for NULL xmit_buf in ipoctal_write_tty(). 3. UAF in ipoctal_cleanup(): ipack_put_carrier(ipoctal->dev) dereferences ipoctal->dev after the ipack_device has been freed by ipack_device_del(). Fix by caching ipoctal->carrier_...