# 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-2026-72391"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:19.842Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:13:45.125Z"
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-2026-72391"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72391.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72391"
title: "net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy\n\nsfp_i2c_mdiobus_create() allocates the I2C MDIO bus with mdio_i2c_alloc(),\na plain (non-devm) allocation, and registers it. sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy()\nonly unregisters the bus and clears sfp-\u003ei2c_mii without calling\nmdiobus_free(). As the only reference to the bus is then cleared, the\nstruct mii_bus is leaked.\n\nThis is hit whenever a copper/RollBall SFP module that instantiated an MDIO\nbus is removed: sfp_sm_main() takes the global teardown path and calls\nsfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy(). sfp_cleanup(), on driver unbind, frees\nsfp-\u003ei2c_mii directly, which is why the leak only triggered on module\nhot-removal and not on unbind.\n\nFree the bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy() to match the allocation done in\nsfp_i2c_mdiobus_create()."
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