CVE-2026-72224

Publication date 15 August 2026

Last updated 9 October 2026

Ubuntu priority

Description

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. [ as: commit message and log edits ]

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