# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68378"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:56.590Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:04:24.219Z"
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-2026-68378"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68378.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68378"
title: "dpll: fix NULL pointer dereference in dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndpll: fix NULL pointer dereference in dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync()\n\nWhen a dpll_pin is shared across multiple dpll_device instances and\nthose devices are being unregistered (e.g. during driver module removal),\na NULL pointer dereference can occur in dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync().\n\nThis happens under the following conditions:\n - A pin is registered with two or more dpll devices (dpll_A, dpll_B)\n - The pin has ref_sync pairs with other pins\n - During unregistration of dpll_A's pins, a ref_sync partner pin is\n   unregistered first, removing it from dpll_A-\u003epin_refs\n - But since the partner pin is still registered with dpll_B, its\n   dpll_refs is not empty, so dpll_pin_ref_sync_pair_del() does NOT\n   run and the partner stays in the pin's ref_sync_pins xarray\n - When the pin itself is then unregistered from dpll_A, the delete\n   notification calls dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync() which finds the\n   partner in ref_sync_pins, passes dpll_pin_available() (partner is\n   still registered with dpll_B), but dpll_pin_on_dpll_priv(dpll_A,\n   partner) returns NULL because partner was already removed from\n   dpll_A-\u003epin_refs\n - The NULL priv pointer is passed to the driver's ref_sync_get\n   callback, which dereferences it\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000034\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n RIP: 0010:zl3073x_dpll_input_pin_ref_sync_get+0x73/0x80 [zl3073x]\n Call Trace:\n  dpll_msg_add_pin_ref_sync+0xb8/0x200\n  dpll_cmd_pin_get_one+0x3b6/0x4b0\n  dpll_pin_event_send+0x72/0x140\n  __dpll_pin_unregister+0x5a/0x2b0\n  dpll_pin_unregister+0x49/0x70\n\nFix this by skipping ref_sync pins whose priv pointer cannot be resolved\nfor the current dpll device."
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