# 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-2026-72219"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:13.067Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:10:34.296Z"
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-2026-72219"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72219.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72219"
title: "lockd: Plug nlm_file leak when nlm_do_fopen() fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlockd: Plug nlm_file leak when nlm_do_fopen() fails\n\nA client can repeatedly drive nlm_do_fopen() failures by presenting\nfile handles that the underlying export rejects. After kzalloc_obj()\nsucceeds in nlm_lookup_file(), the freshly allocated nlm_file is not\nyet inserted into nlm_files[]. The nlm_do_fopen() failure path jumps\nto out_unlock, which releases nlm_file_mutex and returns without\nfreeing the allocation, so each failure leaks one nlm_file.\n\nRoute the failure through out_free so kfree() runs before the\nfunction returns."
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