In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_scmi: Fix double free in SMC transport cleanup path
When the generic SCMI code tears down a channel, it calls the chan_free
callback function, defined by each transport. Since multiple protocols
might share the same transport_info member, chan_free() might want to
clean up the same member multiple times within the given SCMI transport
implementation. In this case, it is SMC transport. This will lead to a NULL
pointer dereference at the second time:
| scmi_protocol scmi_dev.1: Enabled polling mode TX channel - prot_id:16
| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: SCMI Notifications - Core Enabled.
| arm-scmi firmware:scmi: unable to communicate with SCMI
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
| Mem abort info:
| ESR = 0x0000000096000004
| EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
| SET = 0, FnV = 0
| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
| FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
| Data abort info:
| ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
| CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
| GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881ef8000
| [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc2-00124-g455ef3d016c9-dirty #793
| Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
| pstate: 61400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
| lr : smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
| Call trace:
| smc_chan_free+0x3c/0x6c
| idr_for_each+0x68/0xf8
| scmi_cleanup_channels.isra.0+0x2c/0x58
| scmi_probe+0x434/0x734
| platform_probe+0x68/0xd8
| really_probe+0x110/0x27c
| __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c
| driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118
| __driver_attach+0x74/0x128
| bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xe0
| driver_attach+0x24/0x30
| bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x1e8
| driver_register+0x60/0x128
| __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x34
| scmi_driver_init+0x84/0xc0
| do_one_initcall+0x78/0x33c
| kernel_init_freeable+0x2b8/0x51c
| kernel_init+0x24/0x130
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| Code: f0004701 910a0021 aa1403e5 97b91c70 (b9400280)
| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Simply check for the struct pointer being NULL before trying to access
its members, to avoid this situation.
This was found when a transport doesn't really work (for instance no SMC
service), the probe routines then tries to clean up, and triggers a crash.
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it