# 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-2026-72048"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:06.253Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:07:14.096Z"
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-2026-72048"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72048.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72048"
title: "ieee802154: ca8210: fix cas_ctl leak on spi_async failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nieee802154: ca8210: fix cas_ctl leak on spi_async failure\n\nca8210_spi_transfer() allocates cas_ctl with kzalloc_obj(GFP_ATOMIC)\nand relies entirely on the SPI completion callback\nca8210_spi_transfer_complete() to free it.\n\nThe spi_async() API only invokes the completion callback on successful\nsubmission.  On failure it returns a negative error code without ever\nqueuing the callback, which leaves cas_ctl and its embedded spi_message\nand spi_transfer orphaned.  Every kfree(cas_ctl) in the driver is\ninside the completion callback, so there is no other reclamation path.\n\nca8210_spi_transfer() is called from ca8210_spi_exchange(), the\ninterrupt handler ca8210_interrupt_handler(), and from the retry path\ninside the completion callback itself.  The exchange and interrupt\nhandler paths loop on -EBUSY, so under sustained SPI bus contention\nevery retry iteration leaks a fresh cas_ctl (~600 bytes per\noccurrence).\n\nFix it by freeing cas_ctl on the spi_async() error path.  While here,\ncorrect the misleading error string: the function calls spi_async(),\nnot spi_sync()."
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