# 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-2026-64173"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:58.251Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:58.251Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64173"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64173.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64173"
title: "tracing: Do not call map-\u003eops-\u003eelt_free() if elt_alloc() fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Do not call map-\u003eops-\u003eelt_free() if elt_alloc() fails\n\nIn paths where tracing_map_elt_alloc() failed to allocate objects,\nthe map-\u003eops-\u003eelt_alloc() call was never successful. In this case,\nmap-\u003eops-\u003eelt_free() should not be called."
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