# 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-2026-72040"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:59.975Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:30.954Z"
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-2026-72040"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72040.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72040"
title: "ipmi: fix refcount leak in i_ipmi_request()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipmi: fix refcount leak in i_ipmi_request()\n\nWhen a caller provides a `supplied_recv` message to i_ipmi_request(),\nthe function increments the user's `nr_msgs` reference count. If an\nerror occurs later, the out_err cleanup path only frees the recv_msg\nif the function allocated it itself (i.e., !supplied_recv). In the\nsupplied_recv case the cleanup is skipped, leaving the reference count\nelevated. The caller ipmi_request_supply_msgs() does not release the\nsupplied_recv on error, so the reference is permanently leaked.\n\nFix this by explicitly reverting the reference count operations when a\nsupplied recv_msg with a valid user pointer is present in the error\npath: decrement nr_msgs and drop the user's kref."
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