# 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-2026-72270"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:54.589Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:11:30.077Z"
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-2026-72270"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72270.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72270"
title: "fbdev: s3fb: fix potential memory leak in s3_pci_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: s3fb: fix potential memory leak in s3_pci_probe()\n\nIn s3_pci_probe(), the memory allocated for modelist using\nfb_videomode_to_modelist() is not freed in subsequent error paths.\nFix that by calling fb_destroy_modelist()"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37f4b8bd9e3835a7d4da26baf80b497e478d3123"},{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef6c5e4607483259a0daf6584e9e34ef643a655d"},{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc90ec978a3cef6f6d8c6074bee538998c7c9837"},{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d0fa8425b29657b3d3e5bb36f50a50e57c8101f"},{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25b354f74b028a3f91b12e6b446256965744c477"},{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad54698255a4b988cae1ad908c158c1d4128887c"},{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56964e8039150a14462005458b25f19d6cad8f4a"},{"version":"86c0f043a737dadf034a4e6f29aefb074f4a1146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b0ed04bc852887a9164e1bbf521652e8ef3eb92"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.0"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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