CVE-2026-72263 (GCVE-0-2026-72263)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:11
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Title
ASoC: SOF: topology: fix memory leak in snd_sof_load_topology
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: topology: fix memory leak in snd_sof_load_topology When the topology filename contains "dummy" and tplg_cnt is 0, the function returns -EINVAL directly without freeing the tplg_files allocated by kcalloc() at line 2497. This leaks memory on every such topology load attempt. Fix this by setting ret = -EINVAL and jumping to the out: label, which already handles the kfree(tplg_files) cleanup.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 99c159279c6dfa2c4867c7f76875f58263f8f43b , < 6ed7787c43ecf4ae27a3e700cab53a1ed646c7f8 (git)
Affected: 99c159279c6dfa2c4867c7f76875f58263f8f43b , < d46f9f23897261da53ffbeb89d48a13982ba7d28 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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