# 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-2026-72109"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:51.067Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:40:22.667Z"
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-2026-72109"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72109.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72109"
title: "net: sparx5: unregister blocking notifier on init failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: sparx5: unregister blocking notifier on init failure\n\nsparx5_register_notifier_blocks() registers the switchdev blocking\nnotifier before allocating the ordered workqueue. If the workqueue\nallocation fails, the error path unregisters the switchdev and netdevice\nnotifiers, but leaves the blocking notifier registered.\n\nAdd a separate error label for the workqueue allocation failure path and\nunregister the switchdev blocking notifier there."
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