# 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-2026-72448"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:57.701Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:14:50.660Z"
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-2026-72448"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72448.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72448"
title: "octeontx2-pf: Fix leak of SQ timestamp buffer on teardown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocteontx2-pf: Fix leak of SQ timestamp buffer on teardown\n\nThe send-queue timestamp ring is allocated with qmem_alloc() when\ntimestamping is used, but otx2_free_sq_res() never freed sq-\u003etimestamps,\nleaking that memory across ifdown and device removal.  Add the missing\nqmem_free() alongside the other SQ companion buffers."
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