CVE-2026-72244

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured The try_harder contiguous fallback could return a range whose start offset did not match the caller's min_block_size. When a candidate's start is misaligned, realign it: free the misaligned run and reallocate exactly @size at the next lower min_block_size boundary. This keeps the returned size unchanged with no surplus to trim, and rejects the request only when no aligned candidate fits. v2: align misaligned candidates down to min_block_size instead of bailing out, for both the RHS and LHS paths (Matthew).

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7185c5262435b93e5eeffa647008992256b9c51a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56bc6384314fb9ae98975fb2af8b143097ede3dc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4289531106ee175a6eb45db7d4f2734d1dae9887

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419d7d9306491f3e0e417cf794844c73cabee090

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00209