{"id":"CVE-2026-45926","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-45926","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:10:19.328Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rust: pwm: Fix potential memory leak on init error When initializing a PWM chip using pwmchip_alloc(), the allocated device owns an initial reference that must be released on all error…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrust: pwm: Fix potential memory leak on init error\n\nWhen initializing a PWM chip using pwmchip_alloc(), the allocated device\nowns an initial reference that must be released on all error paths.\n\nIf __pinned_init() were to fail, the allocated pwm_chip would currently\nleak because the error path returns without calling pwmchip_put().","published":"2026-05-27T14:17:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-25T12:41:36.000Z","status":"Undergoing Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00113,"percentile":0.01391,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2633dc243c35754a0c2270131d8a199c987c9bf","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baa8b7097d9cc68ff85819cf683972a58c2ce32b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45926","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}