CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72265
- 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:
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/009a8514745b16c468acc25aa00539abbf38e1b5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2515cd60f6b5ad680ed164aa6bd19b05270af34c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/508704de34fb8c0dcbbf13397212363bbf0974de git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca48f23ce61a26349d7d084fb63b70499137c8e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e747f7b17ccce750502fd4d0b4e866fe4f066a6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f5e38c162bdf9dbbe197275d416402712f3707 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8172773e5251f4df2eed74caab6ca3195fed1ea git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed3b3eb212441fb5f287dfd24ebafe11d634f009 git.kernel.org