# 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-2026-72245"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:32.611Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:11:03.666Z"
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-2026-72245"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72245.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72245"
title: "gpu: host1x: Fix device reference leak in host1x_device_parse_dt() error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpu: host1x: Fix device reference leak in host1x_device_parse_dt() error path\n\nAfter device_initialize(), the embedded struct device in struct\nhost1x_device should be released through the device core with\nput_device().\n\nIn host1x_device_add(), if host1x_device_parse_dt() fails, the current\nerror path frees the object directly with kfree(device). That bypasses\nthe normal device lifetime handling and leaks the reference held on the\nembedded struct device.\n\nThe issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and\nconfirmed by manual review.\n\nFix this by using put_device() in the host1x_device_parse_dt() failure\npath."
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