CVE-2026-81004 (GCVE-0-2026-81004)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:42 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:46
VLAI
Title
ipmi:msghandler: Cancel work cleanly on an error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi:msghandler: Cancel work cleanly on an error If an error occurs during startup of an IPMI interface, it may have scheduled work to run. The work needs to be canceled before the interface can be freed.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6639 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: edb6c2118293c1fba9cd11ca80ed043d2411a7e5 , < 99692252b348c11377fd0cdd66b6b18f3b22758e (git)
Affected: 62cd145453d577113f993efd025f258dd86aa183 , < a496c51dd3257ed7e00873af2ad9bb22c3ddc4cf (git)
Affected: 62cd145453d577113f993efd025f258dd86aa183 , < ae84a2536577057e97f23f75a202e26d0e86cf01 (git)
Affected: 5199fc5dc9c519115457406009fcefd50721c995 (git)
Affected: 6.18.20 , < 6.18.50 (semver)
Affected: 6.19.10 , < 6.20 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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