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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93136"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:37.459Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:06:09.105Z"
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-2026-93136"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93136.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93136"
title: "bus: mhi: ep: Fix device refcount leak in the error path of MHI device creation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbus: mhi: ep: Fix device refcount leak in the error path of MHI device creation\n\nmhi_ep_create_device() takes one device reference for the UL channel and\nanother for the DL channel after allocating the transfer device. These\nreferences are normally released by mhi_ep_destroy_device() before the\ndevice itself is removed.\n\nIf dev_set_name() or device_add() fails, the error path currently drops\nonly one reference. The remaining channel references keep the device\nfrom being released and leave the channels associated with a device that\nwas never registered.\n\nRoute both failures through a common unwind path that drops the DL\nchannel reference, the UL channel reference, and the initial reference\nfrom device_initialize()."
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