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CVE-2026-72244 (GCVE-0-2026-72244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:41
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Title
gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured
Summary
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).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 4289531106ee175a6eb45db7d4f2734d1dae9887 (git)
Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 7185c5262435b93e5eeffa647008992256b9c51a (git)
Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 419d7d9306491f3e0e417cf794844c73cabee090 (git)
Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 56bc6384314fb9ae98975fb2af8b143097ede3dc (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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