CVE-2026-72475 (GCVE-0-2026-72475)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:57 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:15
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Title
dmaengine: dma-axi-dmac: Properly free struct axi_dmac_desc
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().
Severity
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < 36e9cbbfc09ef792918e6a276dd7e2dbca7f31ce (git)
Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < 9f1ef67c041ef592c13603957ba08b6f21010004 (git)
Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < f055829151eed5a9ec4af98a6c1ce75dbaf2e372 (git)
Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < 4910ce1b3b35687bb2a5e742c4bfbea3c647c980 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (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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