# 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-2026-72271"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:55.203Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:11:31.179Z"
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-2026-72271"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72271.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72271"
title: "fbdev: i740fb: fix potential memory leak in i740fb_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: i740fb: fix potential memory leak in i740fb_probe()\n\nIn i740fb_probe(), the memory allocated in fb_videomode_to_modelist()\nfor modelist is not freed in the error paths. Fix that by calling\nfb_destroy_modelist()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3776b1bf9c100873c7365bd31a67ed6caacbd82"},{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccf073cd4a2f783adc40b04db3805dbddaaf9f31"},{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aebdbe61b3960cd22b8bb6e70e3d94fb3bbb202c"},{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1ecbaeec5fbf0b0e2d5810ec574f762d148771e"},{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c0cf89b74e7b8ebc21a1542937c8e912d19f22b"},{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"146b708bc75f1e6cf70df31195632c9946cb70fd"},{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ede8fa708235c81ab18de14077f1a458bec7e22"},{"version":"5350c65f4f15bbc111ffa629130d3f32cdd4ccf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5936063409af230a2c88b8700c47b89a19fd70b5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.4"},{"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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