CVE-2026-72305

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00335df9da2011e095f846d645cc2e9fd2907659
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae878f262bd1445c8c31511856a99962a05fe16
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e27a6aca608c9e04f091c29c420d03fafe0313
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e88c1bc3a41d9a260dd42bae8ad18fd4f35bbe1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/690fb82c4122f8c2656fa4f842275132771b68b9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1523803445ee0348f62b77793266dd981596e0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde25641cbddd0c084e3320d08f755e7e6acfae5

Configurations

No configuration.

History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-15 06:22

Updated : 2026-08-23 13:16

NVD link : CVE-2026-72305

Mitre link : CVE-2026-72305

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-72305

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Products Affected

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CWE

No CWE.

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