# 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-2026-68461"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:21.219Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:11.556Z"
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-2026-68461"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68461.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68461"
title: "device property: initialize the remaining fields of fwnode_handle in fwnode_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndevice property: initialize the remaining fields of fwnode_handle in fwnode_init()\n\nIf a firmware node is allocated on the stack (for instance: temporary\nsoftware node whose life-time we control) or on the heap - but using a\nnon-zeroing allocation function - and initialized using fwnode_init(),\nits secondary pointer will contain uninitialized memory which likely\nwill be neither NULL nor IS_ERR() and so may end up being dereferenced\n(for example: in dev_to_swnode()). Set fwnode-\u003esecondary to NULL on\ninitialization. While at it: initialize the remaining fields of struct\nfwnode_handle too just to be sure.\n\n[ Fix typo in commit message. - Danilo ]"
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