# 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-2026-72272"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:55.825Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:11:32.271Z"
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-2026-72272"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72272.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72272"
title: "fbdev: radeon: fix potential memory leak in radeonfb_pci_register()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: radeon: fix potential memory leak in radeonfb_pci_register()\n\nThe function radeonfb_pci_register() allocates memory for modelist\n(by calling radeon_check_modes() which calls fb_add_videomode()).\nThe memory is appended to info-\u003emodelist, but is not freed in subsequent\nerror paths. Fix this by calling fb_destroy_modelist()."
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