# 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-2026-97440"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:03:53.360Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:58:25.396Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97440"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97440.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97440"
title: "net: qrtr: fix node refcount leak on ctrl packet alloc failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: qrtr: fix node refcount leak on ctrl packet alloc failure\n\nqrtr_send_resume_tx() calls qrtr_node_lookup() which takes a\nreference on the returned node. If the subsequent call to\nqrtr_alloc_ctrl_packet() fails due to memory allocation failure, the\nfunction returns -ENOMEM without calling qrtr_node_release() to\nrelease the node reference.\n\nAdd qrtr_node_release(node) before returning on the allocation failure\npath to properly release the reference."
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