CVE-2026-89716 (GCVE-0-2026-89716)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-11 19:46
Modified
2026-10-19 08:51
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zram: validate deflate params We must validate user-supplied deflate winbits before we pass it to zlib_deflate_workspacesize(), which triggers BUG_ON() if winbits value is outside of valid ranges.
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Impacted products
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Linux Linux Version: dc75a0d93bd5a1c64104efb4ec680463afbdd755
Version: dc75a0d93bd5a1c64104efb4ec680463afbdd755
Version: dc75a0d93bd5a1c64104efb4ec680463afbdd755
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