Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-80974

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: sm501: Fix potential memory leaks during remove The memory allocated for struct sm501_devdata in sm501_pci_probe() and sm501_plat_probe() is not freed by the corresponding remove functions sm501_pci_remove() and sm501_plat_remove(). Fix that by adding a call to kfree().

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (10.6th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 11th percentile — 10.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-80974: held from 0.002 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: -0.000

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 2.6.21

References