CVE record · CVE-2026-97479

driver core: Avoid warning when removing a device while its supplier is unbinding

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 24 Sept 2026, 16:04 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 8c3e315d4296421cd26b3300ee0ac117f0877f20 to before 3d13785eabc3871bde179f3f17a2b2bef064864a git affected 8c3e315d4296421cd26b3300ee0ac117f0877f20 to before d5eb39d6178ca88db706c7b82dcd19a77f30aa9e git affected 8c3e315d4296421cd26b3300ee0ac117f0877f20 to before da22e4bce2a8cbed32dcda407b7d06cb5feec8e3 git affected 8c3e315d4296421cd26b3300ee0ac117f0877f20 to before 73ea4ec0ec46d12558a61842b474e7dd63538edc git affected 8c3e315d4296421cd26b3300ee0ac117f0877f20 to before 36d74f17e03f7e60e1b08fbe16cfad6e69cc3aa9 git affected 2e5c082d3727522a3f30a50582784d24754d14a8 git affected 70154bb515a325c007bcf64971099e1e17f16f28 git affected 5.6.19 to before 5.7 semver affected 5.7.3 to before 5.8 semver Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.8 unaffected before 5.8 semver unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.114 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-97479
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 24 Sept 2026
Updated: 30 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Linux kernel versions affected by CVE-2026-97479 are the range from commit 8c3e315d4296421cd26b3300ee0ac117f0877f20 up to the fixed commits listed for each stable branch, and the 5.8 series. The source describes a kernel warning, triggered in the driver core when a device is removed while its supplier is unbinding, and gives few details on impact beyond that. No attacker requirements or consequences are described. The fix suppresses the spurious warning for this removal sequence; no upgrade version is named beyond the listed unaffected stable releases.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 24 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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