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FKIE_CVE-2026-72265

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:21 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:18

Severity

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().

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/009a8514745b16c468acc25aa00539abbf38e1b5
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2515cd60f6b5ad680ed164aa6bd19b05270af34c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/508704de34fb8c0dcbbf13397212363bbf0974de
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca48f23ce61a26349d7d084fb63b70499137c8e
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e747f7b17ccce750502fd4d0b4e866fe4f066a6
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f5e38c162bdf9dbbe197275d416402712f3707
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8172773e5251f4df2eed74caab6ca3195fed1ea
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed3b3eb212441fb5f287dfd24ebafe11d634f009

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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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

Title

fbdev: nvidia: fix potential memory leak in nvidiafb_probe()

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e747f7b17ccce750…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2515cd60f6b5ad680…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/508704de34fb8c0dc…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca48f23ce61a2634…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8172773e5251f4df…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/009a8514745b16c46…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed3b3eb212441fb5f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f5e38c162bdf9db…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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)
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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CVE-2026-72265 (GCVE-0-2026-72265)

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