# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-36959"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-30T15:35:51.624Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:42:59.094Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36959"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36959.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36959"
title: "pinctrl: devicetree: fix refcount leak in pinctrl_dt_to_map()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npinctrl: devicetree: fix refcount leak in pinctrl_dt_to_map()\n\nIf we fail to allocate propname buffer, we need to drop the reference\ncount we just took. Because the pinctrl_dt_free_maps() includes the\ndroping operation, here we call it directly."
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