# 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-2026-74320"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:16.805Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:17:10.332Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74320"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74320.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74320"
title: "fbdev: sm501fb: Fix buffer errors in OF binding code"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: sm501fb: Fix buffer errors in OF binding code\n\nThe code that gets the frame buffer mode from OF has 'use after free',\n'buffer overrun' and memory leaks.\n\ninfo-\u003eedid_data isn't free if the probe functions fail or if\npd-\u003edef_mode is set.\n\nIf both the CRT and PANEL are enabled info-\u003eedid_data is used after\nbeing freed and is freed twice.\n\nThe string returned by of_get_property(np, \"mode\", &len) is just\nwritten over either the static \"640x480-16@60\" or the module parameter\nstring without any regard for the length (which is most likely longer).\n\nUse kstrump() for the OF mode and free everything before freeing 'info."
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