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FKIE_CVE-2026-23081

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-04 17:16 - Updated: 2026-02-05 14:57

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: intel-xway: fix OF node refcount leakage Automated review spotted am OF node reference count leakage when checking if the 'leds' child node exists. Call of_put_node() to correctly maintain the refcount.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f24dfd556401b75f78e8d9cbd94dd9f31411c3a
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79912b256e14054e6ba177d7e7e631485ce23dbe

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-23081",
  "lastModified": "2026-02-05T14:57:20.563",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2026-23081 (GCVE-0-2026-23081)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 16:08 – Updated: 2026-02-09 08:38

Title

net: phy: intel-xway: fix OF node refcount leakage

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f24dfd556401b75f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79912b256e14054e6…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 1758af47b98c17da464cb45f476875150955dd48 , < 1f24dfd556401b75f78e8d9cbd94dd9f31411c3a (git)
Affected: 1758af47b98c17da464cb45f476875150955dd48 , < 79912b256e14054e6ba177d7e7e631485ce23dbe (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.8 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-23081 (GCVE-0-2026-23081)

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