# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68176"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:47.298Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:30:41.982Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68176"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68176.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68176"
title: "tracing: Fix mmiotrace possible NULL dereferencing of hiter-\u003edev"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix mmiotrace possible NULL dereferencing of hiter-\u003edev\n\nIf the mmio_pipe_open() fails to find a PCI device, the hiter-\u003edev\nwill be assigned to NULL. The mmiotrace read() function dereferences the\nhiter-\u003edev if hiter exists.\n\nChange the test of the read to not only check hiter being NULL, but also\nthe hiter-\u003edev before dereferencing it."
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