# 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-2026-72223"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:16.019Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:10:38.658Z"
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-2026-72223"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72223.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72223"
title: "nvdimm/btt: Free arena sub-allocations on discover_arenas() error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvdimm/btt: Free arena sub-allocations on discover_arenas() error path\n\nMemory allocated by btt_freelist_init(), btt_rtt_init(), and\nbtt_maplocks_init() is not freed on some discover_arenas() error\npaths. This leaks memory when arena discovery fails.\n\nAdd the missing kfree() calls to release the allocations before\nreturning an error.\n\n[ as: commit message and log edits ]"
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