# 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-2026-72268"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:53.357Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:11:27.859Z"
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-2026-72268"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72268.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72268"
title: "fbdev: tdfxfb: fix potential memory leak in tdfxfb_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: tdfxfb: fix potential memory leak in tdfxfb_probe()\n\nIn tdfxfb_probe(), the memory allocated for modelist using\nfb_videomode_to_modelist() when CONFIG_FB_3DFX_I2C is defined, is not\nfreed in the subsequent error paths.\nFix that by calling fb_destroy_modelist()."
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