mux: mmio: fix regmap leak on probe failure

published 2026-05-06 6 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-27716

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

The mmio regmap that may be allocated during probe is never freed.

Switch to using the device managed allocator so that the regmap is released on probe failures (e.g. probe deferral) and on driver unbind.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1 links 3

Linux Linux 6.18.16, 6.19.6, 7.0

linux Debian 14 6.19.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43155

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-43155 updated 2026-11-07

kernel: mux: mmio: fix regmap leak on probe failure

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-43155
NVD CVE-2026-43155

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Summary