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FKIE_CVE-2026-72270

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: 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()

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d0fa8425b29657b3d3e5bb36f50a50e57c8101f
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25b354f74b028a3f91b12e6b446256965744c477
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37f4b8bd9e3835a7d4da26baf80b497e478d3123
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b0ed04bc852887a9164e1bbf521652e8ef3eb92
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56964e8039150a14462005458b25f19d6cad8f4a
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad54698255a4b988cae1ad908c158c1d4128887c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef6c5e4607483259a0daf6584e9e34ef643a655d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc90ec978a3cef6f6d8c6074bee538998c7c9837

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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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

Title

fbdev: s3fb: fix potential memory leak in s3_pci_probe()

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37f4b8bd9e3835a7d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef6c5e4607483259a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc90ec978a3cef6f6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d0fa8425b29657b3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25b354f74b028a3f9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad54698255a4b988c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56964e8039150a144…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b0ed04bc852887a9…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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)
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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CVE-2026-72270 (GCVE-0-2026-72270)

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