Upstream information

CVE-2026-31753 at MITRE

Description

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

auxdisplay: line-display: fix NULL dereference in linedisp_release

linedisp_release() currently retrieves the enclosing struct linedisp via
to_linedisp(). That lookup depends on the attachment list, but the
attachment may already have been removed before put_device() invokes the
release callback. This can happen in linedisp_unregister(), and can also
be reached from some linedisp_register() error paths.

In that case, to_linedisp() returns NULL and linedisp_release()
dereferences it while freeing the display resources.

The struct device released here is the embedded linedisp->dev used by
linedisp_register(), so retrieve the enclosing object directly with
container_of() instead.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1263977 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri May 1 18:01:35 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri May 8 12:08:52 2026