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FKIE_CVE-2026-72305

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:22 - Updated: 2026-08-23 13:16

Severity

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VDUSE: avoid leaking information to userspace The bounceing is not necessarily page aligned, so current VDUSE can leak kernel information through mapping bounce pages to userspace. Allocate bounce pages with __GFP_ZERO to avoid leaking information to userspace.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00335df9da2011e095f846d645cc2e9fd2907659
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae878f262bd1445c8c31511856a99962a05fe16
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e27a6aca608c9e04f091c29c420d03fafe0313
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e88c1bc3a41d9a260dd42bae8ad18fd4f35bbe1
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/690fb82c4122f8c2656fa4f842275132771b68b9
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1523803445ee0348f62b77793266dd981596e0
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde25641cbddd0c084e3320d08f755e7e6acfae5

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-72305 (GCVE-0-2026-72305)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:55 – Updated: 2026-08-23 12:47

Title

VDUSE: avoid leaking information to userspace

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e27a6aca608c9e0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae878f262bd1445c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde25641cbddd0c08…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e88c1bc3a41d9a26…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/690fb82c4122f8c26…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00335df9da2011e09…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1523803445ee034…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c , < 41e27a6aca608c9e04f091c29c420d03fafe0313 (git) Affected: 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c , < 3ae878f262bd1445c8c31511856a99962a05fe16 (git) Affected: 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c , < fde25641cbddd0c084e3320d08f755e7e6acfae5 (git) Affected: 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c , < 5e88c1bc3a41d9a260dd42bae8ad18fd4f35bbe1 (git) Affected: 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c , < 690fb82c4122f8c2656fa4f842275132771b68b9 (git) Affected: 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c , < 00335df9da2011e095f846d645cc2e9fd2907659 (git) Affected: 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c , < 9c1523803445ee0348f62b77793266dd981596e0 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.217 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.184 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (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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CVE-2026-72305 (GCVE-0-2026-72305)

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