Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72212

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - mm/memoryhotplug: fix incorrect altmap passing in error path In createaltmapsandmemoryblocks, when archaddmemory succeeds with memmaponmemory enabled, the vmemm...

CVE-2026-72212

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memoryhotplug: fix incorrect altmap passing in error path In createaltmapsandmemoryblocks, when archaddmemory succeeds with memmaponmemory enabled, the vmemmap pages are allocated from params.altmap. If creatememoryblockdevice...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72212

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memoryhotplug: fix incorrect altmap passing in error path In createaltmapsandmemoryblocks, when archaddmemory succeeds with memmaponmemory enabled, the vmemmap pages are allocated from params.altmap. If creatememoryblockdevice...

EUVD-2026-58970

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memoryhotplug: fix incorrect altmap passing in error path In createaltmapsandmemoryblocks, when archaddmemory succeeds with memmaponmemory enabled, the vmemmap pages are allocated from params.altmap. If creatememoryblockdevice...

CVE-2026-72212 mm/memory_hotplug: fix incorrect altmap passing in error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memoryhotplug: fix incorrect altmap passing in error path In createaltmapsandmemoryblocks, when archaddmemory succeeds with memmaponmemory enabled, the vmemmap pages are allocated from params.altmap. If creatememoryblockdevice...

CVE-2026-72212

CVE-2026-72212 : In the Linux kernel, a bug in memory hotplug could lead to memory corruption. When arch_add_memory() succeeds with memmap_on_memory, vmemmap pages are allocated from params.altmap; if create_memory_block_devices() later fails, arch_remove_memory() was called with a NULL altmap in...

SUSE CVE-2026-64295

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: pageext: add count limit to pageextiternext to prevent invalid PFN access The pageext iteration API does not validate if the PFN still belongs to a valid section while advancing the iterator. When dynamically adding memory in...

CVE-2026-64295 mm: page_ext: add count limit to page_ext_iter_next to prevent invalid PFN access

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: pageext: add count limit to pageextiternext to prevent invalid PFN access The pageext iteration API does not validate if the PFN still belongs to a valid section while advancing the iterator. When dynamically adding memory in...

CVE-2012-5517

CVE-2012-5517 is referenced in multiple advisories. The connected documents confirm a vulnerability in the Linux kernel before 3.6 where the online_pages function in mm/memory_hotplug.c can be abused by local users to cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference when memory hot-added ...