CVE-2026-72101

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-integrity: fix leaking uninitialized kernel memory If hash size is less than device's tuple size, dm-integrity is supposed to zero the remaining space. There was a bug in the code that zeroing didn't work. This commit fixes it.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f0af8493009a61b4313e0a8c6e03fbc36fd43f9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bb03b2b01b814a9fc14afbfc2cbb2cca5b34750

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50af3e51dc709384701dbc721b4bd865285c5f2c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c4e9bb1d4101030f55c869f18bd3ece39a77bbb

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00209