# 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-2026-72066"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:19.527Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:26.150Z"
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-2026-72066"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72066.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72066"
title: "cpu: hotplug: Bound hotplug states sysfs output"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpu: hotplug: Bound hotplug states sysfs output\n\nstates_show() adds CPU hotplug state names into a single sysfs buffer\nusing sprintf(). With enough registered states, this can write past the\nend of the PAGE_SIZE buffer.\n\nUse sysfs_emit_at() so output is bounded."
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