CVE-2026-72216 json
remoteproc: qcom: Fix leak when custom dump_segments addition fails
published 2026-08-15 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-23 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-58974
- cvss
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- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
remoteproc: qcom: Fix leak when custom dump_segments addition fails
Free allocated minidump_region 'name' in qcom_add_minidump_segments() when failing before adding the region to 'dump_segments'. Otherwise, the 'name' is not tracked and is never freed by qcom_minidump_cleanup().
Return error when adding to 'dump_segments' fails.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.15.217, 6.1.184, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
- linux Debian 12 6.1.187-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.100-1
- linux Debian 14 7.1.5-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72216
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-202.212
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-147.147
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-38.38
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1119.126
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1067.70
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1014.14
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1120.130
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1071.79
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72216
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- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.42
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/491edca252d1256b57e805c6e3acae320b53f53e commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bfe7e7729617e73233ab5f1a2edbeee5e75c722 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/65104d6eb43f066dcf73ca9ade6478824b17d867 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/381c8a7a59da06293951c343857f4a2465b2c655 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/51aad3d89a2dd2bd34713785b0f2fd5177eb33b6 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5b1aaa74118e91f0c0f18b22b6f853199873db4 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf9fc18e62c58eae1ceb65dab2bccb8a724de2d commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-72216 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: remoteproc: qcom: Fix leak when custom dump_segments addition fails
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/491edca252d1256b57e805c6e3acae320b53f53e
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8bfe7e7729617e73233ab5f1a2edbeee5e75c722
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/65104d6eb43f066dcf73ca9ade6478824b17d867
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/381c8a7a59da06293951c343857f4a2465b2c655
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/51aad3d89a2dd2bd34713785b0f2fd5177eb33b6
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e5b1aaa74118e91f0c0f18b22b6f853199873db4
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ecf9fc18e62c58eae1ceb65dab2bccb8a724de2d
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-72216
- NVD CVE-2026-72216
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