CVE-2026-43202: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: vt8500lcdfb: fix missing dma_free_coherent() fbi->fb.screen_buffer is allocated with dma_alloc_coherent() but is not freed if the error path is reached.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.7, before 5.10.252 (fixed in 5.10.252); from 5.11, before 5.15.202 (fixed in 5.15.202); from 5.16, before 6.1.165 (fixed in 6.1.165); from 6.2, before 6.6.128 (fixed in 6.6.128); from 6.7, before 6.12.75 (fixed in 6.12.75); from 6.13, before 6.18.16 (fixed in 6.18.16); …

Published 2026-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.