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CVE-2025-39882
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-09-23T06:15:47.947 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:18:44.337

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: fix potential OF node use-after-free The for_each_child_of_node() helper drops the reference it takes to each node as it iterates over children and an explicit of_node_put() is only needed when exiting the loop early. Drop the recently introduced bogus additional reference count decrement at each iteration that could potentially lead to a use-after-free.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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