# 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-2026-45868"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:15:48.311Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:15:48.311Z"
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-2026-45868"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45868.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45868"
title: "pinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func()\n\nof_parse_phandle_with_args() returns a device_node pointer with refcount\nincremented in gpiospec.np. The loop iterates through all phandles but\nnever releases the reference, causing a refcount leak on each iteration.\n\nAdd of_node_put() calls to release the reference after extracting the\nneeded arguments and on the error path when devm_kzalloc() fails.\n\nThis bug was detected by our static analysis tool and verified by my\ncode review."
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