CVE-2026-72168

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5

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

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 13 Will Not Fix
14 kernels
  • 6.12.85-1
  • 6.12.86-1
  • 6.12.88-1
  • 6.12.74-2
  • 6.12.73-1
  • 6.12.63-1
  • 6.12.69-1
  • 6.12.74-1
  • 6.12.90-1
  • 6.12.90-2
  • 6.12.94-1
  • 6.12.95-1
  • 6.12.96-1
  • 6.12.100-1
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned —
Ubuntu 26.04 Will Not Fix
2 kernels
  • 7.0.0-31.31
  • 7.0.0-34.34