CVE-2026-93821: PCI: altera: Protect root bus removal with rescan lock
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-93821 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4Timeline
- 24-09-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: altera: Protect root bus removal with rescan lock Hold the pci_rescan_remove_lock lock while stopping and removing a root bus to avoid racing with concurrent rescan or hotplug operations triggered via sysfs. Such races may lead to use-after-free issues or system crashes. [bhelgaas: commit log]
CVSS metrics
Risk metrics not yet published.
EPSS trend
Probability
0.17%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
7%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.17% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu169 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.1.190-1 | < 6.12.111-1 | < 7.2.6-1
- linux-6.12< 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
Linux1 product
- linux≥ ec15c4d0d5d2e431169fbdf6c6bcf0c8ff71ef22, < cf9d84d1b6a7c3f3780c043df220a7e9e38137eb | ≥ ec15c4d0d5d2e431169fbdf6c6bcf0c8ff71ef22, < fc462f1bdeaea9789928cbfdf5e069ee559c7642 | ≥ ec15c4d0d5d2e431169fbdf6c6bcf0c8ff71ef22, < 442b7f2a093b4a75f8963aaa7cbb2b8df35a6ac3 | ≥ ec15c4d0d5d2e431169fbdf6c6bcf0c8ff71ef22, < 4b69c63cc247fc0f499fbd11076fee9c2a6e6fd7 | ≥ ec15c4d0d5d2e431169fbdf6c6bcf0c8ff71ef22, < c0cd65906e5f7e293ef2568c9524cc0a918333c3 | ≥ ec15c4d0d5d2e431169fbdf6c6bcf0c8ff71ef22, < 7cbb8f2750d91e64caff89e164ac8280bb80bedc | ≥ ec15c4d0d5d2e431169fbdf6c6bcf0c8ff71ef22, < a8759c8ac48c0419f5899e95a6ffc611b07c965b | 5.3
3 vendors · 172 products