# 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-2026-93261"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:51:59.638Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:08:14.521Z"
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-2026-93261"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93261.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93261"
title: "locking/lockdep: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __lock_set_class()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlocking/lockdep: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __lock_set_class()\n\nregister_lock_class() can return NULL when the lock class pool is\nexhausted, graph_lock() fails, or key validation fails. However,\n__lock_set_class() uses the return value directly in pointer arithmetic\nwithout a NULL check:\n\n  class = register_lock_class(lock, subclass, 0);\n  hlock-\u003eclass_idx = class - lock_classes;\n\nIf class is NULL, this computes a wild offset that corrupts\nhlock-\u003eclass_idx. The subsequent reacquire_held_locks() call will\ninvoke hlock_class() with this corrupted index, leading to a NULL or\nout-of-bounds pointer dereference.\n\nAdd the missing NULL check, consistent with how __lock_acquire() already\nhandles this case at the same call site."
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