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GHSA-CWJR-X8P7-6PV8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-06 12:30 – Updated: 2026-05-13 21:31

Details

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

hwmon: (nct7363) Fix a resource leak in nct7363_present_pwm_fanin

When calling of_parse_phandle_with_args(), the caller is responsible to call of_node_put() to release the reference of device node. In nct7363_present_pwm_fanin, it does not release the reference, causing a resource leak.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-43165 (GCVE-0-2026-43165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:19

Title

hwmon: (nct7363) Fix a resource leak in nct7363_present_pwm_fanin

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (nct7363) Fix a resource leak in nct7363_present_pwm_fanin When calling of_parse_phandle_with_args(), the caller is responsible to call of_node_put() to release the reference of device node. In nct7363_present_pwm_fanin, it does not release the reference, causing a resource leak.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8cde3ddd12ad7d0e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb99b58763a95e20b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4923bbff0bcffe488…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < c8cde3ddd12ad7d0e6b5a3e0ea3914a9a778adf4 (git) Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < fb99b58763a95e20b214fc1dd86837ae00a400b7 (git) Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < 4923bbff0bcffe488b3aa76829c829bd15b02585 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-CWJR-X8P7-6PV8

CVE-2026-43165 (GCVE-0-2026-43165)

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