UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45990

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: slub: fix data loss and overflow in krealloc Commit 2cd8231796b5 "mm/slub: allow to set node and align in kvrealloc" introduced the ability to force a reallocation if the original object does not satisfy new alignment or NUMA nod...

CVE-2026-45990 slub: fix data loss and overflow in krealloc()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: slub: fix data loss and overflow in krealloc Commit 2cd8231796b5 "mm/slub: allow to set node and align in kvrealloc" introduced the ability to force a reallocation if the original object does not satisfy new alignment or NUMA nod...

CVE-2026-45990

CVE-2026-45990 concerns the Linux kernel slub/kvrealloc code, where forcing realloc with new alignment/NUMA node could trigger data loss during NUMA migration and a potential out-of-bounds write when shrinking. The root cause described is that the reallocation path could memcpy with an incorrect ...