# 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-2026-43246"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:38.246Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:20:50.199Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43246"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43246.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43246"
title: "media: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe()\n\nIn one of the error paths in tw9906_probe(), the memory allocated in\nv4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() is not freed. Fix that\nby calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the handler in that error path."
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