# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68180"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:51.694Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:30:44.755Z"
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-2026-68180"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68180.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68180"
title: "intel_th: fix MSC output device reference leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nintel_th: fix MSC output device reference leak\n\nintel_th_output_open() looks up the output device with\nbus_find_device_by_devt(), which returns the device with a reference that\nmust be dropped after use.\n\ncommit 95fc36a234da (\"intel_th: fix device leak on output open()\")\nattempted to drop the reference from intel_th_output_release(). However,\na successful open replaces file-\u003ef_op with the output driver file\noperations before returning, so close runs the output driver release\ncallback instead.\n\nFor MSC outputs, close runs intel_th_msc_release(), which only removes\nthe per-file iterator and does not drop the device reference taken by\nintel_th_output_open(). Consequently, every successful MSC output open\nleaks one device reference.\n\nDrop the device reference from intel_th_msc_release(), which is the\nrelease path actually used for MSC output files. Remove the now-unused\nintel_th_output_release() callback from intel_th_output_fops."
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