CVE-2026-90284

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's firmware loader. Due to improper handling of sysfs fallback requests, a race condition can occur where a userspace helper completes a request before it is properly queued. This can lead to the system retaining a pointer to freed memory, potentially causing a...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-90284

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - firmwareloader: do not queue completed sysfs fallback requests fwloadsysfsfallback calls deviceadd before adding the fwpriv to pendingfwhead. deviceadd publishe...

EUVD-2026-81877

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmwareloader: do not queue completed sysfs fallback requests fwloadsysfsfallback calls deviceadd before adding the fwpriv to pendingfwhead. deviceadd publishes the fallback loading interface, so a userspace helper which discove...

CVE-2026-90284 firmware_loader: do not queue completed sysfs fallback requests

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmwareloader: do not queue completed sysfs fallback requests fwloadsysfsfallback calls deviceadd before adding the fwpriv to pendingfwhead. deviceadd publishes the fallback loading interface, so a userspace helper which discove...

PT-2026-94632

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description An issue exists in the firmware loader where fw load sysfs fallback calls device add before adding fw priv to pending fw head. This allows a userspace helper to complete the request via...