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CVE-2026-72265 (GCVE-0-2026-72265)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:11
VLAI
Title
fbdev: nvidia: fix potential memory leak in nvidiafb_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: nvidia: fix potential memory leak in nvidiafb_probe() In nvidiafb_probe(), the memory allocated for modelist in nvidia_set_fbinfo() is not freed in the subsequent error paths. Fix that by calling fb_destroy_modelist().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 7e747f7b17ccce750502fd4d0b4e866fe4f066a6 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 2515cd60f6b5ad680ed164aa6bd19b05270af34c (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 508704de34fb8c0dcbbf13397212363bbf0974de (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6ca48f23ce61a26349d7d084fb63b70499137c8e (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e8172773e5251f4df2eed74caab6ca3195fed1ea (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 009a8514745b16c468acc25aa00539abbf38e1b5 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ed3b3eb212441fb5f287dfd24ebafe11d634f009 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 85f5e38c162bdf9dbbe197275d416402712f3707 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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