Bug 2516309 (CVE-2026-72269) - CVE-2026-72269 kernel: fbdev: uvesafb: fix potential memory leak in uvesafb_probe()
Summary: CVE-2026-72269 kernel: fbdev: uvesafb: fix potential memory leak in uvesafb_p...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72269
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-18 06:22 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:05:44 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: uvesafb: fix potential memory leak in uvesafb_probe()

Due to an incorrect goto label, memory allocated for modedb and modelist
in uvesafb_vbe_init() is not freed in some error paths. Fix this by
updating the goto label.
Comment 1 gkamathe 2026-08-18 06:21:07 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081556-CVE-2026-72269-5337@gregkh/T
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