# 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-2026-98504"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:05.274Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:43.250Z"
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-2026-98504"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98504.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98504"
title: "PCI: of_property: Omit bus properties without a subordinate bus"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI: of_property: Omit bus properties without a subordinate bus\n\nA bridge (a device with a Type 1 header) may not have a secondary bus\nallocated (pdev-\u003esubordinate), e.g., if there are no available bus numbers\nor the bridge secondary/subordinate bus numbers are not writable.\n\nThe dynamic OF helpers of_pci_prop_bus_range() and of_pci_prop_intr_map()\ndereference pdev-\u003esubordinate without checking it.  When\nCONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES is enabled, this can cause a NULL pointer\ndereference and early boot hang.\n\nGenerate 'bus-range' and 'interrupt-map' properties only when a subordinate\nbus exists.  Keep the node and its remaining properties for bridges without\none.\n\nThe problem was latent since 407d1a51921e (\"PCI: Create device tree node\nfor bridge\"), but wasn't reachable until 1f340724419e (\"PCI: of: Create\ndevice tree PCI host bridge node\"), which appeared in v6.15.  Before\n1f340724419e, of_pci_make_dev_node() returned early because the parent OF\nnode was missing.\n\n[bhelgaas: move pdev-\u003esubordinate test to callees, commit log]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"407d1a51921e9f28c1bcec647c2205925bd1fdab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccd32fa3489cbe86a0b281da4447b4c7eadb3518"},{"version":"407d1a51921e9f28c1bcec647c2205925bd1fdab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6d97d10e49ae49026ae13af6c41634fce470a37"},{"version":"407d1a51921e9f28c1bcec647c2205925bd1fdab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"879c911f77b8a7862aa16079b04efc3fdc5d32ec"},{"version":"407d1a51921e9f28c1bcec647c2205925bd1fdab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aee774588abd78f75952fd34c3fa461bc46b62c2"},{"version":"407d1a51921e9f28c1bcec647c2205925bd1fdab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8805840aad73df7146778be243a196d48b4f6430"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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