# 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-2026-72120"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:59.226Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:44:57.136Z"
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-2026-72120"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72120.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72120"
title: "can: bcm: add missing rcu list annotations and operations"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: bcm: add missing rcu list annotations and operations\n\nsashiko-bot remarked the missing use of list_add_rcu() in\nbcm_[rx|tx]_setup() to have a proper initialized bcm_op structure\nwhen bcm_proc_show() traverses the bcm_op's under rcu_read_lock().\n\nTo cover all initial settings of the bcm_op's the list_add_rcu() calls\nare moved to the end of the setup code.\n\nWhile at it, also fix the mirroring removal side: bcm_release() called\nbcm_remove_op() - which frees the op via call_rcu() - on ops that were\nstill linked in bo-\u003etx_ops/bo-\u003erx_ops, without list_del_rcu() first.\nUnlink each op with list_del_rcu() before handing it to bcm_remove_op(),\nmatching the existing pattern in bcm_delete_tx_op()/bcm_delete_rx_op()."
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