CVE-2026-93081 json
firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes
published 2026-09-17 52 d ago modified 2026-10-30 9 d ago also EUVD-2026-82191
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes
scmi_child_dev_find() drops the reference returned by device_find_child() before returning the scmi_device pointer. A concurrent unregister can then release the device while the destroy path is still using the returned pointer.
Make the lookup helper return the device_find_child() reference and keep it until scmi_device_destroy() has finished unregistering the child.
Also split device_unregister() in __scmi_device_destroy() so the SCMI bus ID is not made reusable until after device_del() has removed the old scmi_dev.N name from sysfs. This avoids a new SCMI device reusing the same ID while the old device is still registered.
The final device release callback is also a possible cleanup path when SCMI children are deleted by driver core recursion rather than __scmi_device_destroy(). Release the SCMI bus ID from a common helper used by destroy, register-failure and final-release paths, and clear scmi_dev->id after freeing it so the final release cannot free the same ID again.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.16, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.15, 6.18.57, 7.2.6, 7.3
- linux Debian 13 6.12.115-2
- linux Debian 14 7.2.6-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-93081
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.17
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.18
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
- linux-riscv Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42.1
- linux-oracle Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1015.16
- linux-hwe-7.0 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
- linux-oem-7.0 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-93081
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.2.8-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11893-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/afe5c022a180e0ade394d3fffbafc1a701f50993 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8ecdceeb90cd2c265b222a7b65487faf68fea73 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/916e27f71a80f6d77c48d1a1a5782d6d5ef9017c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a60bc2df2d323cc1342f0cf95563cae266801e20 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c59b3393df1348a12308aaabd5fbc58ed6b21cf5 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6abe8fe36b29ff51d1a42c2f338972883f4751a5 commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-93081 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9not affected: vulnerable code not present
+1 more productsfewer
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/afe5c022a180e0ade394d3fffbafc1a701f50993
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d8ecdceeb90cd2c265b222a7b65487faf68fea73
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/916e27f71a80f6d77c48d1a1a5782d6d5ef9017c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a60bc2df2d323cc1342f0cf95563cae266801e20
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/c59b3393df1348a12308aaabd5fbc58ed6b21cf5
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/6abe8fe36b29ff51d1a42c2f338972883f4751a5
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-93081
- NVD CVE-2026-93081
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