CVE-2026-72224

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvdimm/btt: Free arenas on btt_init() error paths

The arenas allocated by discover_arenas() or create_arenas() are not freed on some error paths in btt_init(). This leaks memory when BTT initialization fails.

Call free_arenas() from the affected error paths to release the allocations.

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Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 4.19.0 (+4 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Amazon Linux 2023 Planned
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned