CVE-2026-72240

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's sm501 driver. When a device registration fails, the system does not properly release a device reference. This oversight can lead to a resource leak, potentially causing system instability or a Denial of Service DoS over time...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72240

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - mfd: sm501: Fix reference leak on failed device registration When platformdeviceregister fails in sm501registerdevice, the embedded struct device in pdev has...

CVE-2026-72240 mfd: sm501: Fix reference leak on failed device registration

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: sm501: Fix reference leak on failed device registration When platformdeviceregister fails in sm501registerdevice, the embedded struct device in pdev has already been initialized by deviceinitialize, but the failure path only...

In QEMU through 5.0.0 an integer overflow was found in the SM501 display driver implementation. This flaw occurs in the COPY_AREA macro while handling MMIO write operations through the sm501_2d_engine_write() callback. A local attacker could abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process in sm501_2d_operation() in hw/display/sm501.c on the host resulting in a denial of service.

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PT-2020-6458

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU versions prior to 5.0.0 Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the SM501 display driver implementation, specifically in the COPY AREA macro while handling MMIO write operations through the sm501 2d engine write callbac...