CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-89440

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 11, 2026Sources checked Nov 3, 2026

7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-89440 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-89440?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mmc: via-sdmmc: stop card-detect handling on probe failure

request_irq() registers the SD card-detect interrupt and the probe enables it before mmc_add_host() runs.

If mmc_add_host() fails, the error path only unmaps the registers and returns: the interrupt stays registered, so the handler keeps running against the host once it is freed. via_sdc_isr() dereferences sdhost and its MMIO base and schedules carddet_work, which via_sdc_card_detect() also runs against freed memory through its container_of() dereference.

Add a probe-error path that disables and frees the interrupt and cancels carddet_work before unmapping. carddet_work can re-enable the device interrupt via via_reset_pcictrl(), which restores PCIINTCTRL, so mask it again after cancelling the work.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool and confirmed by manual code review.

Source: NVD