CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72169

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, a bug was found in the kho module where the scratch size is not always aligned to CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES. When using fixed sizes from the command line, an unaligned size can lead to releasing a pageblock that is only partially scratch. The fix rounds up the size in both cases.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential memory management issues, such as releasing a partial pageblock, which could lead to system malfunction. This could affect the stability of systems using the kho feature.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply the Linux kernel patch that rounds up the scratch size to CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES in both cases. Update systems to avoid memory issues.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kho: make sure scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES When using scratch_scale, the scratch sizes are rounded up to CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES since they will be released as MIGRATE_CMA. This is not done when using fixed scratch sizes via command line. This can result in user specifying a size which is not aligned, and thus kernel releasing a pageblock that is only partially scratch. Do the rounding up for both cases in scratch_size_update().

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