# 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-2026-93097"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:11.025Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:05:30.426Z"
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-2026-93097"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93097.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93097"
title: "cxl/mbox: Break poison list loop on an empty payload"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/mbox: Break poison list loop on an empty payload\n\nA device that returns count == 0 with CXL_POISON_FLAG_MORE set on every\niteration never advances nr_records, so the max_errors guard never\ntrips and the do/while loops forever while holding poison.mutex. That\nhangs the sysfs-triggered scan thread and blocks all subsequent poison\noperations on the device. The existing \"Protect against an uncleared\n_FLAG_MORE\" guard was intended to bound a misbehaving device but does\nnot cover the count == 0 case.\n\nStop the loop on an empty payload so a malfunctioning or malicious\ndevice cannot wedge the poison scan."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ed83f7ca398b3798b82c1d5d1113011c0e5a2198","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86771c105293ca26bfcc320b4f60d32c137b54aa"},{"version":"ed83f7ca398b3798b82c1d5d1113011c0e5a2198","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42eab80981f4d2ac820e253e80ecf92f8cd91f69"},{"version":"ed83f7ca398b3798b82c1d5d1113011c0e5a2198","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ad491cef1a812cf7b53aa769cd8869516c47362"},{"version":"ed83f7ca398b3798b82c1d5d1113011c0e5a2198","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e77594e0cea67ab1c2317a27aa77a744e26ad6a6"},{"version":"ed83f7ca398b3798b82c1d5d1113011c0e5a2198","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b301c4afbce4bc3f94528441d8d5ce1366504ad"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"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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