7.8

CVE-2026-72406: linux

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighReceived
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-72406DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72406
Published 15-08-2026Last modified 16-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-72406 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 25 · Related 25
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22091-1SUSE-SU-2026:24179-1SUSE-SU-2026:24181-1SUSE-SU-2026:24182-1SUSE-SU-2026:24184-1SUSE-SU-2026:24197-1

Timeline

  1. 15-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sungem: fix probe error cleanup gem_init_one() calls gem_remove_one() when register_netdev() fails. gem_remove_one() unregisters and frees resources owned by the net_device, including the DMA block, MMIO mapping, PCI regions, and the net_device itself. gem_init_one() then falls through to its own cleanup labels and frees the same resources again. Keep the register_netdev() error path in gem_init_one(): clear drvdata so PM/remove paths do not see a half-registered device, remove the NAPI instance added during probe, and let the existing cleanup labels release the resources once. The issue was found by a local static-analysis checker for probe error paths. The reported path was manually inspected before sending this fix. Compile-tested with CONFIG_SUNGEM=y. Runtime testing was not performed because no sungem hardware is available.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.16% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.17%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu169 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-198.208 | < 6.8.0-147.147 | < 7.0.0-38.38
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1117.124 | < 6.8.0-1067.70 | < 7.0.0-1014.14
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.180-1 | < 6.12.100-1 | < 7.1.5-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < f3bd60b26814b7c3c57c629abb0857dfc76d214a | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < f1d04fefb0c2a2de32d9cee22cdc2088be3758d1 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 331c99029a1cee1111f82f63d15b3cdebefbd341 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < a63eaf7605d1579cf3f551792e478cfaf5ac37d1 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < fb73cdc50b6755e5c3a80a195b2708a39ada0230 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < b15a3cc68e2450aa0edd94a74a7bdd45fcc17dd9 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < bc49e8746584564dba47d963d1916cc876fc6f6b | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 36dea2f639249460d13f6ca66b2a9064187cd34d | 2.6.12

3 vendors · 171 products

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