# CVE-2022-48735: ALSA: hda: Fix UAF of leds class devs at unbinding

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-20 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.9

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: Fix UAF of leds class devs at unbinding The LED class devices that are created by HD-audio codec drivers are registered via devm_led_classdev_register() and associated with the HD-audio codec device. Unfortunately, it turned out that the devres release doesn't work for this case; namely, since the codec resource release happens before the devm call chain, it triggers a NULL dereference or a UAF for a stale set_brightness_delay callback. For fixing the bug, this patch changes the LED class device register and unregister in a manual manner without devres, keeping the instances in hda_gen_spec.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7de1002135cf94367748ffc695a29812d7633b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e629052f013eeb61494d4df2f1f647c2a9aef47
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/813e9f3e06d22e29872d4fd51b54992d89cf66c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/549f8ffc7b2f7561bea7f90930b6c5104318e87b

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