# 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-2026-93046"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:37.691Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:04:41.369Z"
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-2026-93046"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93046.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93046"
title: "software node: Fix software_node_get_reference_args() with index -1"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsoftware node: Fix software_node_get_reference_args() with index -1\n\nThe bounds check for the index passed to\nsoftware_node_get_reference_args() was failing when passed UINT_MAX,\nthis in turn would lead to an out of bound access in the property\narray. Fix the bound check to also cover the UINT_MAX case."
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