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CVE-2026-68181

Low risk· EPSS 10%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the MEI bus cleanup has a concurrency issue where mei_device is accessed without proper locking, potentially leading to use-after-free. The fix protects queue cleanup and WARN traversal with the device lock and moves the traversal before dropping the bus reference.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential system crashes, information leaks, or privilege escalation due to unsafe memory access after free.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that fixes the synchronization issue in the MEI driver as soon as possible.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mei: bus: access mei_device under device_lock on cleanup Fix couple of problems in mei_cl_bus_dev_release(): mei_cl_flush_queues() is running without lock. bus->file_list access after mei_dev_bus_put(bus) can become a use-after-free if this was the last reference to bus. Protect queues cleanup and WARN traversal by device lock there to avoid the concurrent access problems. Move WARN traversal before mei_dev_bus_put(bus). This file uses bus variable name for mei_device, adjust code of mei_cl_bus_dev_release() to use bus variable too.

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