{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "not yet assigned"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:12",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "6.1.180-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "not yet assigned"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:13",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "6.12.100-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "not yet assigned"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "7.1.5-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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()     -\u003e platform_device_register(pdev)        -\u003e device_initialize(\u0026pdev-\u003edev)        -\u003e setup_pdev_dma_masks(pdev)        -\u003e 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.",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72240",
  "modified": "2026-09-14T16:47:49.004382792Z",
  "published": "2026-08-15T06:21:51.063Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-72240"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-72240"
  ]
}