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CVE-2026-72168

mtd: maps: vmu-flash: fix fault in unaligned fixup PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 before 1dc6653c47147ac754fced76b0932b8df1d2d414; affected 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 before 01928835d80829e615a492aa66c629b953ec7bef; affected 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 before 19360c25135fccb6bbafbee49a5f66baf9a311af; affected 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 before 455519f6b70f46ac6cbf41a75ac76ec5e59040f2; affected 47a72688fae7298e1ad5fdc9bff7e04b6a549620 before 79d1661502c6e4b6f626185cef72cf2fa78116e1
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.30; unaffected 0 before 2.6.30; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.101 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.42 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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