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    "id": "CVE-2026-97922",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97922",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-25T10:22:41.699Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T09:10:49.154Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z",
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      "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"
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      "title": "tracing: Free histogram var refs regardless of how often they are referenced",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Free histogram var refs regardless of how often they are referenced\n\nUsing the same variable three or more times in one hist trigger leaks the\nvariable reference and its strings when the trigger is removed.\n\ncommit 656fe2ba85e8 (\"tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy\nvar_refs\") made a trigger's var_refs[] array the only owner of a var ref:\ndestroy_hist_field() returns early for HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF, so the field\nexpressions never destroy one. One entry, freed once, no count needed.\n\ncommit 8bcebc77e85f (\"tracing: Fix histogram code when expression has same\nvar as value\") then made repeated references share one object and added a\ncount of them. Only the increment side exists, since those expressions\nstill return early and never drop a reference, so __destroy_hist_field()\nsees how many references were created rather than how many are left. It\nfrees when the decremented count is 0 or 1, so two references work and\nthree or more leak.\n\nSharing kept one array entry per object, and create_var_ref() searches and\nappends within a single trigger, so nothing outside it holds the object.\nRemoving a trigger whose variables are still referenced is already refused\nby check_var_refs() with -EBUSY. Drop the count and free unconditionally.",
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