# 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-2026-92521"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:28.144Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:04:27.575Z"
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-2026-92521"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-92521.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-92521"
title: "ACPI: PCI: Clear driver_data on all paths that free the acpi_pci_root"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: PCI: Clear driver_data on all paths that free the acpi_pci_root\n\nacpi_pci_root_add() assigns the freshly allocated root to\ndevice-\u003edriver_data before dmar_device_add() and pci_acpi_scan_root().\nBoth failure paths reach the end: label where root is kfree()'d, but\nonly the pci_acpi_scan_root() path clears driver_data first.\n\nWhen dmar_device_add() fails during a hot-add, root is freed while\ndevice-\u003edriver_data still points at it.  The ACPI core does not clear\ndriver_data on attach failure, so a later acpi_pci_find_root() call may\ndereference this dangling pointer.\n\nacpi_pci_root_remove() has the same problem: it frees root without\nclearing device-\u003edriver_data, leaving a dangling pointer behind after\nthe root bridge is removed.\n\nMove the NULL assignment to the shared end: label so every error path in\nacpi_pci_root_add() clears driver_data before freeing root, and clear it\nin acpi_pci_root_remove() as well, so the object is never left reachable\nthrough driver_data after being freed."
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