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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31750"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:14:42.887Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:15:04.978Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-31750"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31750.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31750"
title: "comedi: runflags cannot determine whether to reclaim chanlist"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: runflags cannot determine whether to reclaim chanlist\n\nsyzbot reported a memory leak [1], because commit 4e1da516debb (\"comedi:\nAdd reference counting for Comedi command handling\") did not consider\nthe exceptional exit case in do_cmd_ioctl() where runflags is not set.\nThis caused chanlist not to be properly freed by do_become_nonbusy(),\nas it only frees chanlist when runflags is correctly set.\n\nAdded a check in do_become_nonbusy() for the case where runflags is not\nset, to properly free the chanlist memory.\n\n[1]\nBUG: memory leak\n  backtrace (crc 844a0efa):\n    __comedi_get_user_chanlist drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1815 [inline]\n    do_cmd_ioctl.part.0+0x112/0x350 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1890\n    do_cmd_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1858 [inline]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4e1da516debbe6a573ffa0392e2809d180d0575c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"830c848aba9f047eb6b34288975ebeb8e8621451"},{"version":"4e1da516debbe6a573ffa0392e2809d180d0575c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29f644f14b89e6c4965e3c89251929e451190a66"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"6.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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