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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68181"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:52.724Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:04.934Z"
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-2026-68181"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68181.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68181"
title: "mei: bus: access mei_device under device_lock on cleanup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmei: bus: access mei_device under device_lock on cleanup\n\nFix couple of problems in mei_cl_bus_dev_release():\n\nmei_cl_flush_queues() is running without lock.\nbus-\u003efile_list access after mei_dev_bus_put(bus) can become a\nuse-after-free if this was the last reference to bus.\n\nProtect queues cleanup and WARN traversal by device lock there\nto avoid the concurrent access problems.\nMove WARN traversal before mei_dev_bus_put(bus).\n\nThis file uses bus variable name for mei_device, adjust\ncode of mei_cl_bus_dev_release() to use bus variable too."
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