CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23137
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-02-14
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: unittest: Fix memory leak in unittest_data_add()
In unittest_data_add(), if of_resolve_phandles() fails, the allocated
unittest_data is not freed, leading to a memory leak.
Fix this by using scope-based cleanup helper __free(kfree) for automatic
resource cleanup. This ensures unittest_data is automatically freed when
it goes out of scope in error paths.
For the success path, use retain_and_null_ptr() to transfer ownership
of the memory to the device tree and prevent double freeing.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.18 < 6.18.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.19
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/235a1eb8d2dcc49a6cf0a5ee1aa85544a5d0054b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c7ad40c285ab85e3614433e063f14aac2e2fe17 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58baf98d1bdab897fd796f39a16061bade229d71 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f09b0f705bd7197863b90256ef533a6414d1db2c Patch