CVE-2026-72269 (GCVE-0-2026-72269)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:54
Modified
2026-08-17 05:11
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: uvesafb: fix potential memory leak in uvesafb_probe()
Due to an incorrect goto label, memory allocated for modedb and modelist
in uvesafb_vbe_init() is not freed in some error paths. Fix this by
updating the goto label.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 Version: 8bdb3a2d7df48b861972c4bfb58490853a228f51 |
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Sightings
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