CVE-2026-92481 json
pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind
published last mo. modified 23d ago also EUVD-2026-82102
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind
mtk_eint_do_init() creates an IRQ domain, populates it with a mapping for every EINT line and installs a chained handler on the parent interrupt, but none of these are ever released. This was harmless while the drivers were built-in, but now that they can be built as modules and unbound/rmmod'd it leaves behind a dangling IRQ domain, interrupt mappings whose chip data points at freed memory, and a chained handler that keeps firing into that freed data.
The plain allocations in mtk_eint_do_init() already use the device-managed devm_*() helpers, so tear the remaining resources down the same way: register a devm action that detaches the chained handler, waits for any in-flight handler to finish, disposes of the per-line mappings and removes the IRQ domain. This mirrors the device-managed lifecycle adopted for the GPIO chip and keeps the whole EINT setup self-cleaning on unbind.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
- linux Debian 12 6.1.190-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.111-1
- linux Debian 14 7.2.6-1
- linux-6.12 Debian 12 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-92481
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.17
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.18
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
- linux-riscv Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42.1
- linux-oracle Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1015.16
- linux-hwe-7.0 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
- linux-oem-7.0 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-92481
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.2.8-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11893-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/23252bc1cd9a58a039c9b1ae77b22d2b33da48e9 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/903a7cdf63a81d3738594c5bd1b5955f58fda427 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/51552c8c60d3b1fecc062eab2d8cfeaa1cb339dd commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f6d898179ca4771ee602bdad4246c3952af83eb commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e06785cba7f86d72abd531058b1a82d6952a7346 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/88292b7103d260e3e606eb3bb2794060a5fde48e commit
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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-92481 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9not affected: vulnerable code not present
+1 more productsfewer
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/23252bc1cd9a58a039c9b1ae77b22d2b33da48e9
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/903a7cdf63a81d3738594c5bd1b5955f58fda427
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/51552c8c60d3b1fecc062eab2d8cfeaa1cb339dd
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7f6d898179ca4771ee602bdad4246c3952af83eb
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e06785cba7f86d72abd531058b1a82d6952a7346
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/88292b7103d260e3e606eb3bb2794060a5fde48e
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-92481
- NVD CVE-2026-92481
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