# 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-2026-93054"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:43.104Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:04:49.183Z"
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-2026-93054"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93054.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93054"
title: "uio: Fix stale info pointer in failed registration path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nuio: Fix stale info pointer in failed registration path\n\nAfter device_add(), the UIO device is visible to userspace and /dev/uioX\ncan be opened. If a later setup step fails, __uio_register_device()\nunwinds the device but leaves idev-\u003einfo pointing at the caller-owned\nstruct uio_info.\n\nThat is unsafe when an opener races with the failed registration path.\nThe open file keeps a reference to the uio_device, while the caller sees\nregistration failure and may free its struct uio_info. Later file\noperations can then follow idev-\u003einfo and dereference freed memory.\n\nHandle post-device_add() failures like unregister: remove UIO attributes\nwhile the info pointer is still valid, then clear idev-\u003einfo under\ninfo_lock and wake existing waiters/async users before removing the\ndevice and minor. This makes already-open file descriptors observe the\nsame \"device gone\" state as normal uio_unregister_device()."
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