CVE-2026-72265

Summary

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

fbdev: nvidia: fix potential memory leak in nvidiafb_probe()

In nvidiafb_probe(), the memory allocated for modelist in nvidia_set_fbinfo() is not freed in the subsequent error paths. Fix that by calling fb_destroy_modelist().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 7e747f7b17ccce750502fd4d0b4e866fe4f066a6affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 2515cd60f6b5ad680ed164aa6bd19b05270af34caffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 508704de34fb8c0dcbbf13397212363bbf0974deaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 6ca48f23ce61a26349d7d084fb63b70499137c8eaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < e8172773e5251f4df2eed74caab6ca3195fed1eaaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 009a8514745b16c468acc25aa00539abbf38e1b5affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < ed3b3eb212441fb5f287dfd24ebafe11d634f009affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 85f5e38c162bdf9dbbe197275d416402712f3707affected
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