CVE-2026-43155 mux: mmio: fix regmap leak on probe failure

What is CVE-2026-43155?

CVE-2026-43155 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

mux: mmio: fix regmap leak on probe failure

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.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43155?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2026-43155?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2026-43155 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43155 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-43155, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43155, GHSA-cjv4-23g7-c427, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43155.