# 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-2026-97484"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:04:27.978Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:58:48.553Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97484"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97484.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97484"
title: "usbip: vhci_hcd: fix NULL deref in status_show_vhci"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusbip: vhci_hcd: fix NULL deref in status_show_vhci\n\nplatform_get_drvdata() can return NULL if a VHCI host controller's\nprobe failed (e.g. due to USB bus number exhaustion). status_show_vhci()\nchecked for a NULL pdev but not for a NULL hcd returned by\nplatform_get_drvdata(). Passing NULL to hcd_to_vhci_hcd() does not\nreturn NULL - it returns a pointer offset of 0x260, causing a NULL\npointer dereference when that value is subsequently dereferenced.\n\nAdd a NULL check on hcd before calling hcd_to_vhci_hcd(). Move\nstatus_show_not_ready() above status_show_vhci() to make it callable\nfrom the new error path without a forward declaration."
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