CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72168

Low risk· EPSS 10%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the vmu-flash driver for MTD memory has a bug causing access to uninitialized data when allocating memcard structs. The fix uses kzalloc instead of kmalloc to zero the memory before use.

Risk Assessment

This can lead to unpredictable system behavior, including crashes (panic) during flash memory operations, potentially resulting in data loss or service unavailability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply the kernel patch that changes the allocation to kzalloc as soon as possible, and update the system to a kernel version containing this fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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