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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72275

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:21:57 AM

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

fbdev: broadsheetfb: fix potential memory leak in broadsheetfb_probe()

The memory allocated for pagerefs in fb_deferred_io_init() is not freed
on the error path. Fix it by calling fb_deferred_io_cleanup().
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07d2f9cb667c2f6331a483227c62d0a4a91ef42f
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ce94f9e3bfb37866638e4b81e2c3d8f7470a12c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54a4cd11702d5e8bcefc3b514e338955813993a1
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d18a4e4234fd3ee0d0eed8ccbbb50cb76b2232c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e818c397548cde68d64c6abf8be0a5f3e3eef7d1
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c9aae8c950869f65af8b9dd2f71f861ea6e433
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edc5a845108337d0c167ab850fe9adfaea442975
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