CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93260
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/xive: propagate IPI init errors to prevent use-after-free
When xive_init_ipis() fails (e.g. irq_domain_alloc_irqs() fails),
the error path frees the global xive_ipis array. However,
xive_smp_probe() previously ignored this failure and proceeded to
call xive_setup_cpu_ipi(), which dereferences the already-freed
xive_ipis pointer -- a use-after-free.
Now that xive_smp_probe() returns int (previous patch), propagate
the error from xive_init_ipis() and xive_setup_cpu_ipi() through
xive_smp_probe(). Check the return value in both pnv_smp_probe()
and pSeries_smp_probe() so that IPI setup is aborted cleanly on
failure, avoiding the use-after-free.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ea6238343691309e68308131c7e80c3ae05afea git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/411a3c016e7a95f5fa105a0587e07d0647a77727 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c9ab0c9cede9f149733d330e2d7d45341b71359 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89e1caa5b0aafe23e9938d9a311e9d41baee583e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c554a8d376d5aea1b237ed6bef6f9fbfc550e67f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e36b1c2eafcaaddefa70d55e6fda74cf6cda38af git.kernel.org