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-2026-72406

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:14 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net: sungem: fix probe error cleanup

gem_init_one() calls gem_remove_one() when register_netdev() fails.
gem_remove_one() unregisters and frees resources owned by the net_device,
including the DMA block, MMIO mapping, PCI regions, and the net_device
itself. gem_init_one() then falls through to its own cleanup labels and
frees the same resources again.

Keep the register_netdev() error path in gem_init_one(): clear drvdata so
PM/remove paths do not see a half-registered device, remove the NAPI
instance added during probe, and let the existing cleanup labels release
the resources once.

The issue was found by a local static-analysis checker for probe error
paths. The reported path was manually inspected before sending this fix.

Compile-tested with CONFIG_SUNGEM=y. Runtime testing was not performed
because no sungem hardware is available.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/331c99029a1cee1111f82f63d15b3cdebefbd341
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36dea2f639249460d13f6ca66b2a9064187cd34d
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63eaf7605d1579cf3f551792e478cfaf5ac37d1
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b15a3cc68e2450aa0edd94a74a7bdd45fcc17dd9
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc49e8746584564dba47d963d1916cc876fc6f6b
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1d04fefb0c2a2de32d9cee22cdc2088be3758d1
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3bd60b26814b7c3c57c629abb0857dfc76d214a
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb73cdc50b6755e5c3a80a195b2708a39ada0230
Added Affected

                  
                
              
[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sungem.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"f3bd60b26814b7c3c57c629abb0857dfc76d214a","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"f1d04fefb0c2a2de32d9cee22cdc2088be3758d1","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"331c99029a1cee1111f82f63d15b3cdebefbd341","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"a63eaf7605d1579cf3f551792e478cfaf5ac37d1","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"fb73cdc50b6755e5c3a80a195b2708a39ada0230","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"b15a3cc68e2450aa0edd94a74a7bdd45fcc17dd9","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"bc49e8746584564dba47d963d1916cc876fc6f6b","versionType":"git","status":"affected"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","lessThan":"36dea2f639249460d13f6ca66b2a9064187cd34d","versionType":"git","status":"affected"}]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sungem.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"}]}]