Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Moderate 2026-09-11T00:00:00 kernel: auxdisplay: charlcd: cancel backlight work on registration failure 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CWE-825

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: auxdisplay: charlcd: cancel backlight work on registration failure With CONFIG_CHARLCD_BL_FLASH, charlcd_init() schedules bl_work before charlcd_register() calls misc_register(). If registration fails, the caller frees the charlcd object while delayed work still contains its address. Add charlcd_deinit() to cancel the delayed work and turn the backlight off. Use it for both registration rollback and normal unregistration.

A flaw was found in the `auxdisplay: charlcd` component of the Linux kernel. This use-after-free vulnerability occurs when the `charlcd_register()` function fails, leading to the `charlcd` object being freed while a delayed work item still retains its address. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a system crash or other undefined behavior.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Not affected openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Not affected openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89585 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89585 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-89585.mbox