# 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-2026-72140"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:14.015Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:08:58.385Z"
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-2026-72140"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72140.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72140"
title: "i2c: mlxbf: Fix use-after-free in mlxbf_i2c_init_resource()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: mlxbf: Fix use-after-free in mlxbf_i2c_init_resource()\n\nIf devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() returns an error,\nmlxbf_i2c_init_resource() frees tmp_res before reading tmp_res-\u003eio to\nget the error code. This results in a use-after-free.\n\nSave the error code before freeing tmp_res."
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