CVE-2026-72168 (GCVE-0-2026-72168)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:53
Modified
2026-08-23 12:46
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VLAI Severity ?
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: maps: vmu-flash: fix fault in unaligned fixup
Use kzalloc_obj() / kzalloc_objs() to allocate the memcard structs,
instead of kmalloc_obj() / kmalloc_objs() to prevent access to
uninitialized data.
Fixes runtime error: Fault in unaligned fixup: 0000 [#1] at
mtd_get_fact_prot_info.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 Version: 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 Version: 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 Version: 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 Version: 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 Version: 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 Version: 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 |
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