# 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-2026-45978"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:36.753Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:36.753Z"
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-2026-45978"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45978.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45978"
title: "staging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref\n\ngb_lights_light_config() stores channel_count before allocating the\nchannels array. If kcalloc() fails, gb_lights_release() iterates the\nnon-zero count and dereferences light-\u003echannels, which is NULL.\n\nAllocate channels first and only then publish channels_count so the\ncleanup path can't walk a NULL pointer."
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