{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-64251 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-64251 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Jul 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-64251 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-64251 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Jul 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-64251 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64251/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64251/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-64251","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64251/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-64251","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-64251","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-64251","GHSA-4mm9-h7gj-362g","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-64251","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-64251"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel pwrseq debugfs interface allows attackers to potentially execute code or escalate privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npwrseq: core: fix use-after-free in pwrseq_debugfs_seq_next()\n\npwrseq_debugfs_seq_next() declares 'next' with __free(put_device),\nwhich causes put_device() to be called on the returned pointer when\nthe variable goes out of scope.  This results in a use-after-free\nsince the seq_file framework receives a pointer whose reference has\nalready been dropped.\n\nSimply removing __free(put_device) would fix the UAF but would leak\nthe reference acquired by bus_find_next_device(), as stop() only\ncalls up_read(\u0026pwrseq_sem) and never releases the device reference.\n\nFix this by making the reference counting consistent across all\nseq_file callbacks, matching the standard pattern used by PCI and\nSCSI:\n\n- start(): use get_device() so it returns a referenced pointer.\n- next(): explicitly put_device(curr) to release the previous\n  device's reference (no NULL check needed - the seq_file framework\n  only calls next() while the previous return was non-NULL).\n- stop(): put_device(data) to release the last iterated device's\n  reference, with a NULL guard since stop() may be called with NULL\n  when start() returned NULL or next() reached end-of-sequence.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"pwrseq: core: fix use-after-free in pwrseq_debugfs_seq_next()","id":"CVE-2026-64251","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"MIPS: DEC: Prevent initial console buffer from landing in XKPHYS","id":"CVE-2026-64252"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"LoongArch: Report dying CPU to RCU in stop_this_cpu()","id":"CVE-2026-64250"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-07-24","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free in the Linux kernel pwrseq debugfs interface allows attackers to potentially execute code or escalate privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64251/"}