CVE-2026-45868

Name	CVE-2026-45868
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func() of_parse_phandle_with_args() returns a device_node pointer with refcount incremented in gpiospec.np. The loop iterates through all phandles but never releases the reference, causing a refcount leak on each iteration. Add of_node_put() calls to release the reference after extracting the needed arguments and on the error path when devm_kzalloc() fails. This bug was detected by our static analysis tool and verified by my code review.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4606-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.257-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.170-3	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.174-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.86-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.90-2	fixed
	forky	7.0.10-1	fixed
	sid	7.0.12-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.257-1	DLA-4606-1
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.170-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.85-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.18.14-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/353353309b0f7afa407df29e455f9d15b5acc296 (7.0-rc1)