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CVE-2026-72391 (GCVE-0-2026-72391)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:13
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Title
net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create() allocates the I2C MDIO bus with mdio_i2c_alloc(), a plain (non-devm) allocation, and registers it. sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy() only unregisters the bus and clears sfp->i2c_mii without calling mdiobus_free(). As the only reference to the bus is then cleared, the struct mii_bus is leaked. This is hit whenever a copper/RollBall SFP module that instantiated an MDIO bus is removed: sfp_sm_main() takes the global teardown path and calls sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy(). sfp_cleanup(), on driver unbind, frees sfp->i2c_mii directly, which is why the leak only triggered on module hot-removal and not on unbind. Free the bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy() to match the allocation done in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create().
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e85b1347ace677c3822c12d9332dfaaffe594da6 , < 92dd9a522f01ef57f633a8c1953cf6d48ef2bcd5 (git)
Affected: e85b1347ace677c3822c12d9332dfaaffe594da6 , < d2c37f26d1a37f8177be5f354537f8ee3ec31cc2 (git)
Affected: e85b1347ace677c3822c12d9332dfaaffe594da6 , < 3183b6f5510c876a1c4b4a6bdc3d0ad8940fe742 (git)
Affected: e85b1347ace677c3822c12d9332dfaaffe594da6 , < 86d379fcf1b79bdf4bc2ac891297f30f63d041d8 (git)
Affected: e85b1347ace677c3822c12d9332dfaaffe594da6 , < 2381bf3f484e8e4fd89a225445872ec14e036ab5 (git)
Affected: e85b1347ace677c3822c12d9332dfaaffe594da6 , < 8f31efff9206f9f0adb853cad6916086aac4d5ef (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (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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