# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72004"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:35.363Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:06:25.480Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72004"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72004.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72004"
title: "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()\n\nIf kmemdup() fails while copying supported band structures, the error\npath jumps to fail_rate. This skips rate_control_deinitialize() and\nleaks the initialized local-\u003erate_ctrl.\n\nFix this by adding a fail_band label that shares the rate-control cleanup\npath before falling through to the remaining teardown.\n\nThe bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are\ndeveloping for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing\nv6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly\navailable. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still present in\nv7.1-rc7.\n\nAn x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have a\nsuitable mac80211 device/driver combination to test with, no runtime\ntesting was able to be performed."
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