CVE-2026-72475 (GCVE-0-2026-72475)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:57
Modified
2026-08-17 05:15
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: dma-axi-dmac: Properly free struct axi_dmac_desc Use axi_dmac_free_desc() to free fully the descriptor at fail path when call axi_dmac_alloc_desc() in axi_dmac_prep_peripheral_dma_vec().
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Linux Linux Version: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d
Version: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d
Version: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d
Version: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d
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