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FKIE_CVE-2026-81006

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-11 20:19 - Updated: 2026-09-13 07:17

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: Remove all sysfs files on registration failure ipmi_add_smi() creates the nr_users and nr_msgs files before trying to create the maintenance_mode file. If that last creation fails, the error path removes only nr_users before dropping the final reference to the interface. Remove nr_msgs as well so no sysfs attribute embedded in the freed interface remains registered.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b115b7d06f26b3f000d2afda88acb54c7a7cb2c9
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6c46ab0bdee90c238e96ea4a74972118c97900d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d46c97eddcbc53ca885e8bb359930c58884616ff

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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            "drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c"
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CVE-2026-81006 (GCVE-0-2026-81006)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:42 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:29

Title

ipmi: Remove all sysfs files on registration failure

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d46c97eddcbc53ca8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b115b7d06f26b3f00…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6c46ab0bdee90c23…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 627118470fccc61d7763aa667fcab0a9476843f6 , < d46c97eddcbc53ca885e8bb359930c58884616ff (git) Affected: 627118470fccc61d7763aa667fcab0a9476843f6 , < b115b7d06f26b3f000d2afda88acb54c7a7cb2c9 (git) Affected: 627118470fccc61d7763aa667fcab0a9476843f6 , < b6c46ab0bdee90c238e96ea4a74972118c97900d (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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