# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72017"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:44.698Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:26.593Z"
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-2026-72017"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72017.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72017"
title: "net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close\n\nThe MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that\nhave not yet been marked as completed. They live in queue-\u003etx_skb\nwhich gets freed without remorse nor checking.\n\nmacb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only close will\ntrigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and macb_alloc_consistent()\nfailure cases, queues' tx_skb just got allocated and are empty."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"89e5785fc8a6b9eafd37f2318a9a76d479c796be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e9797dc4ebdefe1b7f931b1f92d5e98e5dbf655"},{"version":"89e5785fc8a6b9eafd37f2318a9a76d479c796be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6124bd785073659c99385094657b77382ebce11b"},{"version":"89e5785fc8a6b9eafd37f2318a9a76d479c796be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2143fdc0ce27adbb1caaa1a97e0bfb9f3750aef4"},{"version":"89e5785fc8a6b9eafd37f2318a9a76d479c796be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26b131b2d5b55a81ef6182769d28105a870c0eb2"},{"version":"89e5785fc8a6b9eafd37f2318a9a76d479c796be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"109241d9880488aafd8e104832b4d4859ad57244"},{"version":"89e5785fc8a6b9eafd37f2318a9a76d479c796be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27f575836cfebbf872dec020428742b10650a955"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.20"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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