CVE-2026-72272 (GCVE-0-2026-72272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:11
VLAI
Title
fbdev: radeon: fix potential memory leak in radeonfb_pci_register()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: radeon: fix potential memory leak in radeonfb_pci_register() The function radeonfb_pci_register() allocates memory for modelist (by calling radeon_check_modes() which calls fb_add_videomode()). The memory is appended to info->modelist, but is not freed in subsequent error paths. Fix this by calling fb_destroy_modelist().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a94a4a0ec2684454934ba104988d6222836a572f (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 30a2ff955b66b16d4c98dc61f4fe8b3a57c6f7bb (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c622a3eed6ad26879b6c0bc208fd6e3ffc4b7de3 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f4dacbfd885f34222e67145294de9b8479aa021d (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1c5387451176db5def499db809d718765f359a37 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c2c795a320e7ef9aa69c7f4bd2c9ac07064eff9a (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1b1b43342fbf11eaf2a8926b9ed4805579d772ac (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < df8c1101c9a08859da612b5d0a08d55d475522c6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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