CVE-2026-72307

CVE-2026-72307

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:

mlxsw: fix refcount leak in mlxsw_sp_vrs_lpm_tree_replace()

When mlxsw_sp_vrs_lpm_tree_replace() fails after replacing some VRs,

the error rollback loop does not correctly revert the preceding

replacements. The loop decrements the index but fails to update the

vr pointer, which still points to the VR that caused the failure. As

a result, the condition and the rollback call always operate on the

same VR, potentially calling mlxsw_sp_vr_lpm_tree_replace() multiple

times on it while never rolling back the earlier VRs. Those VRs

continue to hold a reference to new_tree acquired via

mlxsw_sp_lpm_tree_hold(), leaking the reference count of new_tree.

Fix by reinitializing vr inside the error loop with the updated index:

vr = &mlxsw_sp->router->vrs[i];

so that the loop correctly iterates over all VRs that were actually

replaced.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00220 · 11.8th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:22Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:55Z
    mlxsw: fix refcount leak in mlxsw_sp_vrs_lpm_tree_replace()
    cvelistv5