CVE-2026-72168

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

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Details

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 5.10.259 (+5 more)

Fixes