# 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-2026-93286"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:02:10.463Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:57:12.356Z"
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-2026-93286"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93286.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93286"
title: "net: appletalk: fix NULL pointer dereference in aarp_send_ddp()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: appletalk: fix NULL pointer dereference in aarp_send_ddp()\n\naarp_send_ddp() calls atalk_find_dev_addr(dev) in the LocalTalk fast\npath without checking for NULL. When the device has no AppleTalk\ninterface configured (dev-\u003eatalk_ptr == NULL), this leads to a NULL\npointer dereference at the at-\u003es_net access.\n\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n RIP: 0010:aarp_send_ddp (net/appletalk/aarp.c:552 (discriminator 2))\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  atalk_sendmsg (net/appletalk/ddp.c:1715)\n  __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2265 (discriminator 1))\n  __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2272)\n  do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n\nAdd a NULL check consistent with the other callers of\natalk_find_dev_addr()."
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