PT-2026-37604
CVE-2026-43264
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Published
2026-01-16
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Updated
2026-10-13
Description by
CVSS 3.1
5.5
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
A refcount leak exists in the
of get display timings() function within the fbdev component. The of parse phandle() function returns a device node with an incremented reference count, which is stored in entry and subsequently copied to native mode. When error paths jump to entryfail, the reference count for native mode is not decremented, leading to the leak.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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