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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23348" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:27:34.462Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:05:07.592Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23348" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23348.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23348" title: "cxl: Fix race of nvdimm_bus object when creating nvdimm objects" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl: Fix race of nvdimm_bus object when creating nvdimm objects\n\nFound issue during running of cxl-translate.sh unit test. Adding a 3s\nsleep right before the test seems to make the issue reproduce fairly\nconsistently. The cxl_translate module has dependency on cxl_acpi and\ncauses orphaned nvdimm objects to reprobe after cxl_acpi is removed.\nThe nvdimm_bus object is registered by the cxl_nvb object when\ncxl_acpi_probe() is called. With the nvdimm_bus object missing,\n__nd_device_register() will trigger NULL pointer dereference when\naccessing the dev-\u003eparent that points to &nvdimm_bus-\u003edev.\n\n[ 192.884510] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000006c\n[ 192.895383] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20250812-19.fc42 08/12/2025\n[ 192.897721] Workqueue: cxl_port cxl_bus_rescan_queue [cxl_core]\n[ 192.899459] RIP: 0010:kobject_get+0xc/0x90\n[ 192.924871] Call Trace:\n[ 192.925959] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 192.926976] ? pm_runtime_init+0xb9/0xe0\n[ 192.929712] __nd_device_register.part.0+0x4d/0xc0 [libnvdimm]\n[ 192.933314] __nvdimm_create+0x206/0x290 [libnvdimm]\n[ 192.936662] cxl_nvdimm_probe+0x119/0x1d0 [cxl_pmem]\n[ 192.940245] cxl_bus_probe+0x1a/0x60 [cxl_core]\n[ 192.943349] really_probe+0xde/0x380\n\nThis patch also relies on the previous change where\ndevm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() is called from drivers/cxl/pmem.c instead\nof drivers/cxl/core.c to ensure the dependency of cxl_acpi on cxl_pmem.\n\n1. Set probe_type of cxl_nvb to PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS to ensure the\n driver is probed synchronously when add_device() is called.\n2. Add a check in __devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() to ensure that the\n cxl_nvb driver is attached during cxl_acpi_probe().\n3. Take the cxl_root uport_dev lock and the cxl_nvb-\u003edev lock in\n devm_cxl_add_nvdimm() before checking nvdimm_bus is valid.\n4. Set cxl_nvdimm flag to CXL_NVD_F_INVALIDATED so cxl_nvdimm_probe()\n will exit with -EBUSY.\n\nThe removal of cxl_nvdimm devices should prevent any orphaned devices\nfrom probing once the nvdimm_bus is gone.\n\n[ dj: Fixed 0-day reported kdoc issue. ]\n[ dj: Fix cxl_nvb reference leak on error. Gregory (kreview-0811365) ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8fdcb1704f61a8fd9be0f3849a174d084def0666","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5fc4e150c5ada5f7d20d8f9f1b351f10481fbdf7"},{"version":"8fdcb1704f61a8fd9be0f3849a174d084def0666","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b230daeee420833287cc77314439903e5312f10"},{"version":"8fdcb1704f61a8fd9be0f3849a174d084def0666","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96a1fd0d84b17360840f344826897fa71049870e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"6.18.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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