# 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-2026-93081"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:01.679Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:51:49.003Z"
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-2026-93081"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93081.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93081"
title: "firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes\n\nscmi_child_dev_find() drops the reference returned by\ndevice_find_child() before returning the scmi_device pointer. A\nconcurrent unregister can then release the device while the destroy path\nis still using the returned pointer.\n\nMake the lookup helper return the device_find_child() reference and keep\nit until scmi_device_destroy() has finished unregistering the child.\n\nAlso split device_unregister() in __scmi_device_destroy() so the SCMI bus\nID is not made reusable until after device_del() has removed the old\nscmi_dev.N name from sysfs. This avoids a new SCMI device reusing the\nsame ID while the old device is still registered.\n\nThe final device release callback is also a possible cleanup path when\nSCMI children are deleted by driver core recursion rather than\n__scmi_device_destroy(). Release the SCMI bus ID from a common helper\nused by destroy, register-failure and final-release paths, and clear\nscmi_dev-\u003eid after freeing it so the final release cannot free the same\nID again."
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