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    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2026-93251",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-17T16:02:15.096Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-09-24T15:51:27.511Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:08:04.911Z"
    },
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                "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
                "shortName": "Linux",
                "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:08:04.911Z"
            },
            "descriptions": [
                {
                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: bus: Introduce acpi_bus_get_primary_device()\n\nThe function used for obtaining the first \"physical\" device for which\nthe given ACPI one is the ACPI companion, acpi_get_first_physical_node(),\nmay return a stale device pointer (mostly in theory) because\nacpi_unbind_one() may run as a whole after dropping the ACPI device's\nphysical_node_lock in acpi_get_first_physical_node() and before it\nreturns.  The last reference to the \"physical\" device may be dropped\nthen before the pointer to it is returned to the caller.\n\nIf that happens and the acpi_get_first_physical_node() caller invokes\nget_device() on the pointer obtained from it, which is done by the\nmajority of its callers, a use-after-free will occur.\n\nTo prepare for addressing this problem, introduce a new function for\ngetting the first \"physical\" device associated with the given ACPI one\n(the \"primary physical device\") that will also reference count the\ndevice in question before returning a pointer to it.\n\nMake that new function and acpi_get_first_physical_node() share the\nphysical node list lookup code.\n\nNo intentional functional impact."
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                    "vendor": "Linux",
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                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
                    "programFiles": [
                        "drivers/acpi/bus.c",
                        "include/acpi/acpi_bus.h"
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                            "status": "affected",
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                            "status": "affected",
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                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
                    "programFiles": [
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                        "include/acpi/acpi_bus.h"
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                            "status": "affected"
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                        {
                            "version": "0",
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                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
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                        {
                            "version": "6.18.57",
                            "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*",
                            "status": "unaffected",
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                        {
                            "version": "7.2.6",
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                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "7.3",
                            "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
                        }
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                }
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                {
                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebdd932dc24c1cf7cc31710b7730515e4e66d886"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5657859851abb65105220a6cdb5804926249f714"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72530e1f72b0515a73fd88292254d04fecf03649"
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