CVE-2026-72269

CVE-2026-72269

published August 15, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: uvesafb: fix potential memory leak in uvesafb_probe()

Due to an incorrect goto label, memory allocated for modedb and modelist

in uvesafb_vbe_init() is not freed in some error paths. Fix this by

updating the goto label.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00220 · 11.8th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:21Z
References (8)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/033e56fed09047ee63072e9f58789f40c1c7079d · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12fe6a56506ed3bf0aaf6130a29102ce1fce62da · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61d46d6f5dc163aa5f3548633b5f392b021620ff · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81985921e14f5b471fc0ffe990826d0bda52c0cf · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa387a3e51808f580b51593e3c2f3d4703d91c1a · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c53fdf7ee65af1b9b4566cc437d3754ce7b47118 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c606c28085a3106c91c6d37bbbbf97b451d572ce · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f413512c79c2d0012c6ed486e4025e1489e6d443 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:54Z
    fbdev: uvesafb: fix potential memory leak in uvesafb_probe()
    cvelistv5