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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72140

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:21:31 AM

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

i2c: mlxbf: Fix use-after-free in mlxbf_i2c_init_resource()

If devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() returns an error,
mlxbf_i2c_init_resource() frees tmp_res before reading tmp_res->io to
get the error code. This results in a use-after-free.

Save the error code before freeing tmp_res.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5290a52533e09c38374963f4bb0b35121fe555c7
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a108c9f5a81bb7b29dbb1398be0089655b6bfd2
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71356737a7a55c76fee847563e3d33f8e6dc6b6d
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b398cbbbb9dd76210682a8c9aabd34c5168800b9
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4d9b6a0c9645366d9e4af8a6ac8347bd4c841aa
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce960a1b2caa4ad08291f28d8bcf17ad5a864e54
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6a395a71f4652261d09b572a03c96052662a056
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb267770bf822064f510c9b46743f533d8fa8a5f
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