CVE-2026-72171

Summary

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

mtd: slram: remove failed entries from the device list

register_device() links a new slram_mtdlist entry before allocating all of the state needed by the entry. If a later allocation, memremap(), or mtd_device_register() fails, the partially initialized entry remains on the global list. A later cleanup can then dereference or free invalid state from that failed entry.

Unwind the partially initialized entry and clear the list tail on each failure path after the entry has been linked.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 9ee674ab10f755bbedbcbb8e76745d2bb8de88d1affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < e97415b8254d9cc131b7bb1c80fcf38123269b9aaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < f40acf577bb0fb0829f285ecfeb27d817840601caffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 200b8bc5b6065b02f3775cf131f14b8e1156a00aaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 2fd0cbbb34447ccddab67a2a638a07c6d94cae7aaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < d8dcbbfa0d695a5244059aa34a2e81f3e8df1082affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < bdcdfc2464659789032edfad15ff5f7a166f5d7baffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 36f1648644d769c496a8e47e53603e863e358d73affected
LinuxLinux2.6.12affected
LinuxLinux0 < 2.6.12unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.261 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.212 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.178 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.145 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.97 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.40 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References