CVE-2026-72240

CVE CVE-2026-72240EUVD EUVD-2026-59139Published 2026-08-15T05:54:28.000ZLast changed 2026-08-17T05:10:58.000Z

What the advisory describes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: sm501: Fix reference leak on failed device registration When platform_device_register() fails in sm501_register_device(), the embedded struct device in pdev has already been initialized by device_initialize(), but the failure path only reports the error and returns without dropping the device reference for the current platform device: sm501_register_device() -> platform_device_register(pdev) -> device_initialize(&pdev->dev) -> setup_pdev_dma_masks(pdev) -> platform_device_add(pdev) This leads to a reference leak when platform_device_register() fails. Fix this by calling platform_device_put() before returning the error. The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and confirmed by manual review.

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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Linux — Linux patch: 5.15.212; patch: 5.10.261; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <760a1029692f1d788dc11aa636a3bf432e58b240; patch: 6.12.97; patch: 0; patch: 6.6.145; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <e2dac91380a10e9e8d5883fb73ce9d9b390a629c; patch: 6.18.40; patch: 7.2; patch: 6.1.178; patch: 7.1.5; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <0baf9d43a7b7b43df2900bd8656e75b725028b6e; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <8c2f0b42fc252e1bf1c7746447091a468e784ca1; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <a3e340d506c1036a747fb0972aebf1063f7ef30e; 2.6.21; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <2ff8156fd500d54c61430b6834137fd0a07047ce; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <16a42c88c4667fa0bd944e438a667e059551f1f1; b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e <bbb1ecaed4ed7680e63d3a0f143f03de32de5d6e

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