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CVE-2026-31559

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Fix missing NULL checks for kstrdup() 1.

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Fix missing NULL checks for kstrdup() 1. Replace "of_find_node_by_path("/")" with "of_root" to avoid multiple calls to "of_node_put()". 2. Fix a potential kernel oops during early boot when memory allocation fails while parsing CPU model from device tree.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-04-24 15:16
Modified: 2026-11-11 23:10
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 3 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-11 23:12 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥6.12.43 <6.12.80, ≥6.15.11 <6.16, ≥6.16.2 <6.17, ≥6.17.1 <6.18.21, ≥6.19 <6.19.11, 6.17

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a28daa9b7d7c2ddf2c722e9e95d7e0928bf0cd1
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e7fde2c551f86e6c3de3fd7a9b1f52806ac8db0
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1da957c25cf751a2dce8fb7777f82ccbac0cb3e
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b61a309743322fb57fb9afa9aa3495ac758e4f5e

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-11 23:12 UTC · record ↗

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