CVE-2026-99023
Received Received - Intake

Memory Leak in Linux Kernel PCIe M.2 Power Sequencing

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-99023, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-23

Last updated on: 2026-10-23

Assigner: kernel.org

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: sequencing: pcie-m2: Fix leaking array from of_regulator_bulk_get_all() of_regulator_bulk_get_all() allocates the consumers array and hands it to the caller, who is expected to free it at an appropriate time. pwrseq-pcie-m2.c never did, leading to a memory leak. Add an explicit kfree() for the consumers array.

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Published
2026-10-23
Last Modified
2026-10-23
Generated
2026-10-23
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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Linux Linux 52e7b5bd62bab3851f25d8b70ad7eae9e94aba60
Linux Linux 52e7b5bd62bab3851f25d8b70ad7eae9e94aba60
Linux Linux 7.0

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CWE-UNKNOWN

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