CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72168
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01928835d80829e615a492aa66c629b953ec7bef git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19360c25135fccb6bbafbee49a5f66baf9a311af git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dc6653c47147ac754fced76b0932b8df1d2d414 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455519f6b70f46ac6cbf41a75ac76ec5e59040f2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79d1661502c6e4b6f626185cef72cf2fa78116e1 git.kernel.org