# 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-2026-72058"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:13.616Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:37.509Z"
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-2026-72058"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72058.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72058"
title: "net: ixp4xx_hss: fix duplicate HDLC netdev allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ixp4xx_hss: fix duplicate HDLC netdev allocation\n\nixp4xx_hss_probe() allocates two HDLC netdevs. The first one is stored\nin ndev, initialized, and registered with register_hdlc_device(). The\nsecond one is stored in port-\u003enetdev and later used by the remove path\nfor unregister_hdlc_device() and free_netdev().\n\nThis means that the registered netdev is not the same object that is\nunregistered and freed on remove. It also leaks the first allocation if\nthe second alloc_hdlcdev() call fails, and the first allocation is not\nchecked before ndev is used.\n\nOlder code allocated the HDLC netdev only once and stored the same object\nin both the local variable and port-\u003enetdev. The buggy conversion split\nthis into two alloc_hdlcdev() calls. A later rename changed the local\nvariable name to ndev, but the underlying mismatch remained.\n\nFix this by allocating the HDLC netdev only once and assigning the same\nobject to port-\u003enetdev."
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