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CVE-2026-72270 (GCVE-0-2026-72270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:11
VLAI
Title
fbdev: s3fb: fix potential memory leak in s3_pci_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: s3fb: fix potential memory leak in s3_pci_probe() In s3_pci_probe(), the memory allocated for modelist using fb_videomode_to_modelist() is not freed in 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: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < 37f4b8bd9e3835a7d4da26baf80b497e478d3123 (git)
Affected: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < ef6c5e4607483259a0daf6584e9e34ef643a655d (git)
Affected: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < fc90ec978a3cef6f6d8c6074bee538998c7c9837 (git)
Affected: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < 0d0fa8425b29657b3d3e5bb36f50a50e57c8101f (git)
Affected: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < 25b354f74b028a3f91b12e6b446256965744c477 (git)
Affected: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < ad54698255a4b988cae1ad908c158c1d4128887c (git)
Affected: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < 56964e8039150a14462005458b25f19d6cad8f4a (git)
Affected: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 , < 3b0ed04bc852887a9164e1bbf521652e8ef3eb92 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.0 (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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