# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90188"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:10.349Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:59:24.972Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90188"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90188.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90188"
title: "null_blk: free global tag_set on init error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnull_blk: free global tag_set on init error path\n\nIf shared_tags is enabled, null_setup_tagset() allocates the global tag_set\nvia null_init_global_tag_set(). If device creation later fails, err_dev\ndestroys the default devices and calls unregister_blkdev(), but never frees\nthe global tag_set. Since module init failed, null_exit() is never invoked,\nso the global tag_set's tags and maps are permanently leaked.\n\nFree the global tag_set in err_dev, matching null_exit() which does\nif (tag_set.ops) blk_mq_free_tag_set(&tag_set)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"82f402fefa50f1675bf918bcd009981bd6b30ac8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b2faa330184340d9418ad2c627c2ae881772e33"},{"version":"82f402fefa50f1675bf918bcd009981bd6b30ac8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"665c94554ff0d5d88caae7f40c16c8e0a3369eda"},{"version":"82f402fefa50f1675bf918bcd009981bd6b30ac8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2882e1450fa4597811a951196e07553ea134eb31"},{"version":"82f402fefa50f1675bf918bcd009981bd6b30ac8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b59484ac1e64dd78dbe8c6140891c6308085a75"},{"version":"82f402fefa50f1675bf918bcd009981bd6b30ac8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"081cf37e8a0e00cd91d6df53172c9d928790a798"},{"version":"82f402fefa50f1675bf918bcd009981bd6b30ac8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a1c5ff3a49ba93a1fd0b70537e7a0164071760d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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