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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72042"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:01.454Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:39:41.572Z"
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-2026-72042"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72042.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72042"
title: "ipmi: Fix user refcount underflow in event delivery"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipmi: Fix user refcount underflow in event delivery\n\nipmi_alloc_recv_msg(user) takes the temporary user reference owned by the\nreceive message, and ipmi_free_recv_msg() drops it again. If event delivery\nfails after allocating receive messages for earlier users,\nhandle_read_event_rsp() rolls those messages back with\nipmi_free_recv_msg().\n\nThat rollback path still drops user-\u003erefcount explicitly after freeing each\nmessage. The extra put can free a user that remains linked on intf-\u003eusers,\nso later event delivery may dereference a freed user or trip refcount_t's\naddition-on-zero warning when ipmi_alloc_recv_msg() tries to acquire\nanother reference.\n\nRemove the stale explicit put and the now-dead user assignment. Keep the\nlist_del() and ipmi_free_recv_msg() calls; they are the required rollback\noperations."
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