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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93196"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:12:19.125Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:52:16.262Z"
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-2026-93196"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93196.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93196"
title: "nvdimm: virtio_pmem: refcount requests for token lifetime"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvdimm: virtio_pmem: refcount requests for token lifetime\n\nKASAN reports slab-use-after-free in __wake_up_common():\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff88810fdcb710 by task swapper/0/0\n\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted\n6.19.0-next-20260220-00006-g1eae5f204ec3 #4 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux\n1.17.0-2-2 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x6d/0xb0\n print_report+0x170/0x4e2\n ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x1dc/0x380\n kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0\n ? __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160\n ? __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160\n __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160\n ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10\n __wake_up+0x36/0x60\n virtio_pmem_host_ack+0x11d/0x3b0\n ? sched_balance_domains+0x29f/0xb00\n ? __pfx_virtio_pmem_host_ack+0x10/0x10\n ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x98/0x100\n ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10\n vring_interrupt+0x1c9/0x5e0\n ? __pfx_vp_interrupt+0x10/0x10\n vp_vring_interrupt+0x87/0x100\n ? __pfx_vp_interrupt+0x10/0x10\n __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x17f/0x550\n ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10\n handle_irq_event+0xab/0x1c0\n handle_fasteoi_irq+0x276/0xae0\n __common_interrupt+0x65/0x130\n common_interrupt+0x78/0xa0\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nvirtio_pmem_host_ack() wakes a request that has already been freed by the\nsubmitter.\n\nThis happens when the request token is still reachable via the virtqueue,\nbut virtio_pmem_flush() returns and frees it.\n\nFix the token lifetime by refcounting struct virtio_pmem_request.\nvirtio_pmem_flush() holds a submitter reference, and the virtqueue holds an\nextra reference once the request is queued. The completion path drops the\nvirtqueue reference, and the submitter drops its reference before\nreturning."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41b2025709ec104a07d15540399809ae5851246e"},{"version":"6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4691c137e9cbe76137d730a26d663d900ac7279b"},{"version":"6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be072a5d5e35f4bdf2da22f600b5d6dc6c5ff491"},{"version":"6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1e740b9156621afd4c4aa66257f4dde8df1febe"},{"version":"6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e57140944b5a47a7fd5a142faab29a02af040bc8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","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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