CVE-2026-72270 (GCVE-0-2026-72270)
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: 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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 Version: 86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146 |
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