# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72321"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:33.547Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:44:32.954Z"
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-2026-72321"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72321.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72321"
title: "ipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leaks in igmp_mod_timer() and igmp_stop_timer()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: igmp: Fix potential memory leaks in igmp_mod_timer() and igmp_stop_timer()\n\nWhen a timer is deleted and not re-armed in igmp_mod_timer(), or stopped\nin igmp_stop_timer(), the code currently decrements the reference counter\nof the multicast list entry @im using refcount_dec(&im-\u003erefcnt).\n\nHowever, both functions can be called from the RCU reader path:\n- igmp_mod_timer() via igmp_heard_query() -\u003e for_each_pmc_rcu()\n- igmp_stop_timer() via igmp_rcv() -\u003e igmp_heard_report()\n\nIf the group im was concurrently removed from the list by ip_mc_dec_group(),\nits reference count might have already been decremented to 1.\n\nIn this case, timer_delete() succeeds, and refcount_dec() decrements\nthe refcount from 1 to 0. Since refcount_dec() does not free the object\nwhen it hits 0 (unlike ip_ma_put()), the im structure is leaked.\n\nFix this by using ip_ma_put(im) instead of refcount_dec(&im-\u003erefcnt),\nand deferring the put until after the spinlock is released."
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