# 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-2026-68331"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:07.529Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:33:28.174Z"
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-2026-68331"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68331.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68331"
title: "dpaa2-eth: put MAC endpoint device on disconnect"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndpaa2-eth: put MAC endpoint device on disconnect\n\nfsl_mc_get_endpoint() returns the MAC endpoint device with a reference\ntaken through device_find_child(). The Ethernet connect path stores that\ndevice in mac-\u003emc_dev and keeps it for the lifetime of the connected MAC\nobject.\n\nHowever, the disconnect path only disconnects and closes the MAC before\nfreeing the dpaa2_mac object. It does not drop the endpoint device\nreference stored in mac-\u003emc_dev, so every successful connect leaks that\ndevice reference when the MAC is later disconnected.\n\nDrop the endpoint device reference after closing the MAC and before\nfreeing the dpaa2_mac object."
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