# 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-2026-72077"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:27.612Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:45.145Z"
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-2026-72077"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72077.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72077"
title: "Input: ims-pcu - fix firmware leak in async update"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: ims-pcu - fix firmware leak in async update\n\nThe firmware object was not being released if validation failed.\nUse __free(firmware) to ensure the firmware is always released."
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