Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72027

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - mm/compaction: handle freepagesprepare properly in compactionfree freepagesprepare can fail but compactionfree does not handle the failure case. Failed pages...

CVE-2026-72027

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem, specifically within the mm/compaction component. When the freepagesprepare function fails, the compactionfree function does not properly handle this error. This oversight can lead to pages that are either hardware poisoned...

CVE-2026-72027

CVE-2026-72027 affects the Linux kernel in the memory management compaction path. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of the return value of free_pages_prepare() within compaction_free(); when free_pages_prepare() fails, compaction_free() may still add pages back into cc->freepages,...

CVE-2026-72027 mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/compaction: handle freepagesprepare properly in compactionfree freepagesprepare can fail but compactionfree does not handle the failure case. Failed pages should not be added back to cc-freepages for future use, since they can...