U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72171

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:21:35 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

                  
                
              
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.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/200b8bc5b6065b02f3775cf131f14b8e1156a00a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fd0cbbb34447ccddab67a2a638a07c6d94cae7a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36f1648644d769c496a8e47e53603e863e358d73
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee674ab10f755bbedbcbb8e76745d2bb8de88d1
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdcdfc2464659789032edfad15ff5f7a166f5d7b
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8dcbbfa0d695a5244059aa34a2e81f3e8df1082
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e97415b8254d9cc131b7bb1c80fcf38123269b9a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f40acf577bb0fb0829f285ecfeb27d817840601c
Added Affected

                  
                
              
[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","programFiles":["drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"9ee674ab10f755bbedbcbb8e76745d2bb8de88d1","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"e97415b8254d9cc131b7bb1c80fcf38123269b9a","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"f40acf577bb0fb0829f285ecfeb27d817840601c","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"200b8bc5b6065b02f3775cf131f14b8e1156a00a","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"2fd0cbbb34447ccddab67a2a638a07c6d94cae7a","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"d8dcbbfa0d695a5244059aa34a2e81f3e8df1082","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"bdcdfc2464659789032edfad15ff5f7a166f5d7b","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"36f1648644d769c496a8e47e53603e863e358d73","versionType":"git","status":"affected"}]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","programFiles":["drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"2.6.12","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"5.10.261","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"5.15.212","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.1.178","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.6.145","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.12.97","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.18.40","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"7.1.5","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*","versionType":"semver","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"7.2-rc1","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","status":"unaffected"}]}]