CVE-2026-72168

CVE-2026-72168

published August 15, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00209 · 10.5th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:21Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:53Z
    mtd: maps: vmu-flash: fix fault in unaligned fixup
    cvelistv5