# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45989"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:55:41.276Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:46:43.307Z"
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-2026-45989"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45989.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45989"
title: "of: unittest: fix use-after-free in testdrv_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nof: unittest: fix use-after-free in testdrv_probe()\n\nThe function testdrv_probe() retrieves the device_node from the PCI\ndevice, applies an overlay, and then immediately calls of_node_put(dn).\nThis releases the reference held by the PCI core, potentially freeing\nthe node if the reference count drops to zero. Later, the same freed\npointer 'dn' is passed to of_platform_default_populate(), leading to a\nuse-after-free.\n\nThe reference to pdev-\u003edev.of_node is owned by the device model and\nshould not be released by the driver. Remove the erroneous of_node_put()\nto prevent premature freeing."
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