CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72214
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: cpcap-battery: Fix missing nvmem_device_put() causing reference leak
In cpcap_battery_detect_battery_type(), the reference to an nvmem
device obtained via nvmem_device_find() is not released with
nvmem_device_put() on the success or read-failure paths, causing a
permanent reference leak. The driver’s retry logic on subsequent
battery property reads can compound this leak, preventing the nvmem
device from ever being freed.
Found by code review.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/700c225d829a1256b59053c34a1a9d1a6ab70b09 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2c14ff63e0e02e3c832385e523e9cc81301171c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d81de441233a92ec21469cd0c4eb3c26b95cd8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b56a5cbf8f1f1a5740f1137c89b14d0373309d8d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deaf6b3f8187231ad8f7770b10ed0be2cd47e9b2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc65520fe0781a1ff46631f111e07b4a1c677b96 git.kernel.org