CVE-2026-72168

medium

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/79d1661502c6e4b6f626185cef72cf2fa78116e1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455519f6b70f46ac6cbf41a75ac76ec5e59040f2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19360c25135fccb6bbafbee49a5f66baf9a311af

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01928835d80829e615a492aa66c629b953ec7bef

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00209