CVE-2026-64372
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: pcc: fix use-after-free and double free in _OSC evaluation pcc_cpufreq_do_osc() calls acpi_evaluate_object() twice for the two-phase _OSC negotiation.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: pcc: fix use-after-free and double free in _OSC evaluation pcc_cpufreq_do_osc() calls acpi_evaluate_object() twice for the two-phase _OSC negotiation. Between the two calls it freed output.pointer but left output.length unchanged. Since acpi_evaluate_object() treats a non-zero length with a non-NULL pointer as an existing buffer to write into, the second call wrote into freed memory (use-after-free). The subsequent kfree(output.pointer) at out_free then freed the same pointer a second time (double free). Reset output.pointer to NULL and output.length to ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER after freeing the first result, so ACPICA allocates a fresh buffer for each phase independently.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.13% probability · 3th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e3c739a2f6fc1de5b19a8839ab80696b9cb2a29Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/266d3dd8b757b48a576e90f018b51f7b7563cc32Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cdb25f144b101083d8bf3fd023ad87fbe6850d7Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/632666a63116d8061c62a988d1ca39dcd6d27c9bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ba6f6783be2ffeb2cbcdc9321c4b9f708f796f7Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e454e9d0bc03446d610ee49abec9dfd424f6541Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/982c9f92d57bda2b769851ff6d90d43dcf5f3734Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a36ca93a8ba57464e521d70a337d37f069064111Patch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.