# CVE-2026-43232: net: wan: farsync: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.10.252, 5.15.202, 6.1.165, 4.10, 4.15, and 3 more
- Published: 2026-05-06 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: from 5.10.163, fixed in 5.10.252; from 5.15.86, fixed in 5.15.202; from 6.1.2, fixed in 6.1.165; from 4.9.337, fixed in 4.10; from 4.14.303, fixed in 4.15; from 4.19.270, fixed in 4.20; from 5.4.229, fixed in 5.5; from 6.0.16, fixed in 6.1
- Linux: 6.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wan: farsync: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by unfinished tasklets When the FarSync T-series card is being detached, the fst_card_info is deallocated in fst_remove_one(). However, the fst_tx_task or fst_int_task may still be running or pending, leading to use-after-free bugs when the already freed fst_card_info is accessed in fst_process_tx_work_q() or fst_process_int_work_q(). A typical race condition is depicted below: CPU 0 (cleanup) | CPU 1 (tasklet) | fst_start_xmit() fst_remove_one() | tasklet_schedule() unregister_hdlc_device()| | fst_process_tx_work_q() //handler kfree(card) //free | do_bottom_half_tx() | card-> //use The following KASAN trace was captured: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800aad101c by task ksoftirqd/3/32 ... Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x70 print_report+0xcb/0x5d0 ? do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00 kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0 ? do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00 do_bottom_half_tx+0xb88/0xd00 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x85/0xe0 ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx___hrtimer_run_queues+0x10/0x10 fst_process_tx_work_q+0x67/0x90 tasklet_action_common+0x1fa/0x720 ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x31f/0x780 handle_softirqs+0x176/0x530 __irq_exit_rcu+0xab/0xe0 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80 ... Allocated by task 41 on cpu 3 at 72.330843s: kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x17/0x60 __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90 fst_add_one+0x1a5/0x1cd0 local_pci_probe+0xdd/0x190 pci_device_probe+0x341/0x480 really_probe+0x1c6/0x6a0 __driver_probe_device+0x248/0x310 driver_probe_device+0x48/0x210 __device_attach_driver+0x160/0x320 bus_for_each_drv+0x101/0x190 __device_attach+0x198/0x3a0 device_initial_probe+0x78/0xa0 pci_bus_add_device+0x81/0xc0 pci_bus_add_devices+0x7e/0x190 enable_slot+0x9b9/0x1130 acpiphp_check_bridge.part.0+0x2e1/0x460 acpiphp_hotplug_notify+0x36c/0x3c0 acpi_device_hotplug+0x203/0xb10 acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x59/0x80 ... Freed by task 41 on cpu 1 at 75.138639s: kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x17/0x60 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kfree+0x135/0x410 fst_remove_one+0x2ca/0x540 pci_device_remove+0xa6/0x1d0 device_release_driver_internal+0x364/0x530 pci_stop_bus_device+0x105/0x150 pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0xd/0x20 disable_slot+0x116/0x260 acpiphp_disable_and_eject_slot+0x4b/0x190 acpiphp_hotplug_notify+0x230/0x3c0 acpi_device_hotplug+0x203/0xb10 acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x59/0x80 ... The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800aad1000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024 The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of freed 1024-byte region The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0xaad0 head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 flags: 0x100000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0100000000000040 ffff888007042dc0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0100000000000040 ffff888007042dc0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0100000000000003 ffffea00002ab401 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff88800aad0f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff88800aad0f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc >ffff88800aad1000: fa fb ---truncated---

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (5.10.252, 5.15.202, 6.1.165, 4.10, 4.15) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cac048ebfbb92d91d719f74b59177cb70a7633b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/086131807d119238cd464e5b0845e48d938dfd79
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae894e47e1cd5a6bf8a0423d888c45df8b2b02dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/337d7b4112a47984ee319171b75b73bab47e7924
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/200bdb8d367ca9b478f9c56ebe56411604d55c81
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21d341fe514fd07e345ed264c9eee21cb2061ca2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04edfdfdfcdefc02408ab670607261b0a0a9a02e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bae8a5d2e759da2e0cba33ab2080deee96a09373

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