# CVE-2026-45963: ASoC: nau8821: Cancel delayed work on component remove

> A missing cancellation of delayed work in the nau8821 audio driver causes a kernel crash when the driver is unloaded while jack detection is pending.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 May 2026
- **Updated:** 2 Sep 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-88568, BELL-CVE-2026-45963, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45963, GHSA-38h5-pjw3-mqxf, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-45963, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-45963, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-45963, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45963

## What is CVE-2026-45963?

CVE-2026-45963 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

ASoC: nau8821: Cancel delayed work on component remove

Attempting to unload the driver while a jack detection work is pending
would likely crash the kernel when it is eventually scheduled for
execution:

[ 1984.896308] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc10c2a20
[...]
[ 1984.896388] Hardware name: Valve Jupiter/Jupiter, BIOS F7A0131 01/30/2024
[ 1984.896396] Workqueue: events nau8821_jdet_work [snd_soc_nau8821]
[ 1984.896414] RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock+0x9f/0x11d0
[...]
[ 1984.896504] Call Trace:
[ 1984.896511]  <TASK>
[ 1984.896524]  ? snd_soc_dapm_disable_pin+0x26/0x60 [snd_soc_core]
[ 1984.896572]  ? snd_soc_dapm_disable_pin+0x26/0x60 [snd_soc_core]
[ 1984.896596]  snd_soc_dapm_disable_pin+0x26/0x60 [snd_soc_core]
[ 1984.896622]  nau8821_jdet_work+0xeb/0x1e0 [snd_soc_nau8821]
[ 1984.896636]  process_one_work+0x211/0x590
[ 1984.896649]  ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
[ 1984.896670]  worker_thread+0x1cd/0x3a0

Cancel unscheduled jdet_work or wait for its execution to finish before
the component driver gets removed.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-45963?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-45963?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2026-45963 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-45963 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-45963 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-45963 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-45963 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-45963/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-45963/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45963
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45963
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-45963

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