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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93163"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:56.570Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:52:06.483Z"
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-2026-93163"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93163.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93163"
title: "hwrng: core - fix rng list on registration error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwrng: core - fix rng list on registration error\n\nhwrng_register(rng) does the following:\n\n1. Checks if rng has name and read methods set\n2. Checks if the name already exists\n3. Adds rng to global rng_list\n4. May try to set rng to current_rng\n\nIf step 4 fails, it returns an error. However, it does not remove the\nrng from rng_list, causing a dangling reference which can result in\nuse-after-free if the caller frees rng, since registration failed.\n\nAdd a list_del_init() cleanup step."
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