{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-99210","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-09-25T10:25:14.401Z","datePublished":"2026-10-28T10:36:04.110Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-28T10:36:04.110Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-10-28T10:36:04.110Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naccel/rocket: clear rdev on device init failure\n\nrocket_probe() stores the return value from rocket_device_init() in the\nfile-scoped rdev pointer before checking whether it is an error pointer.\nIf rocket_device_init() fails, rdev is left as an ERR_PTR.\n\nThe rdev pointer is also used as the marker for whether the shared rocket\ndevice has already been initialized. A later core probe can therefore see\na non-NULL rdev, skip rocket_device_init(), and dereference the error\npointer when reading rdev->num_cores.\n\nSave the error code and clear rdev before returning from the\nrocket_device_init() failure path."}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/accel/rocket/rocket_drv.c"],"versions":[{"version":"ed98261b41687323ffa02ca20fef1e60b38fd1aa","lessThan":"79071b67182e1b352d51a3917729b8d424710b49","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ed98261b41687323ffa02ca20fef1e60b38fd1aa","lessThan":"dd47a6c920083b069f00f0920e4566915a6aec46","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ed98261b41687323ffa02ca20fef1e60b38fd1aa","lessThan":"4ac852419f0d317c7bd8db5b8acb3cc78be7fe33","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/accel/rocket/rocket_drv.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.18.59","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.13","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.18","versionEndExcluding":"6.18.59"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.18","versionEndExcluding":"7.2.13"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.18","versionEndExcluding":"7.3"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79071b67182e1b352d51a3917729b8d424710b49"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd47a6c920083b069f00f0920e4566915a6aec46"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ac852419f0d317c7bd8db5b8acb3cc78be7fe33"}],"title":"accel/rocket: clear rdev on device init failure","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}