Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 24, 2026· Updated Oct 3, 2026
CVE-2026-97440
CVE-2026-97440
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: qrtr: fix node refcount leak on ctrl packet alloc failure
qrtr_send_resume_tx() calls qrtr_node_lookup() which takes a reference on the returned node. If the subsequent call to qrtr_alloc_ctrl_packet() fails due to memory allocation failure, the function returns -ENOMEM without calling qrtr_node_release() to release the node reference.
Add qrtr_node_release(node) before returning on the allocation failure path to properly release the reference.
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References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b09ff54114566864eea59020f6b69c5bb325b9dnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/477353db343663d5502ca442c6de785d2f23f273nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/78d066ecac9ce50441d4affae0df2093c4c3e62envd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d969c98732a4d42212ec580dd5bbad53f246103nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3515740174b778d0ee44acc477b51a6478da6b8nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3e90fbcd2d5ec1632bc2e8cdd1218f56bcb5fcfnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76a39c45182d9137e053081cee9f2c197404ce6nvd
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