CVE-2026-72172

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mminit: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONEDEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, sectionactivate reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compoundnrpages still assumes th...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72172

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mminit: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONEDEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, sectionactivate reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compoundnrpages still assumes th...

CVE-2026-72172

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mminit: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONEDEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, sectionactivate reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compoundnrpages still assumes th...

CVE-2026-72172 mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mminit: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONEDEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, sectionactivate reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compoundnrpages still assumes th...

EUVD-2026-58930

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mminit: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONEDEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, sectionactivate reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compoundnrpages still assumes th...

CVE-2026-72172

CVE-2026-72172 affects the Linux kernel, specifically the mm/mm_init path related to ZONE_DEVICE. The issue occurs when DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, causing section_activate() to reuse the boot memmap while compound_nr_pages() assumes vmemmap optimiz...

CVE-2026-72172 mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mminit: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONEDEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, sectionactivate reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compoundnrpages still assumes th...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72172

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - mm/mminit: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONEDEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, sectionactivate reuses t...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-40948

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagetablecheck: fix crash on ZONEDEVICE Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One...

CVE-2024-40948

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagetablecheck: fix crash on ZONEDEVICE Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONEDEVICE pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate pageext at all even if there's struct page around. One may...

CVE-2024-40948

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagetablecheck: fix crash on ZONEDEVICE Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONEDEVICE pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate pageext at all even if there's struct page around. One may...

CVE-2024-40948

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagetablecheck: fix crash on ZONEDEVICE Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONEDEVICE pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate pageext at all even if there's struct page around. One may...

CVE-2024-40948 mm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagetablecheck: fix crash on ZONEDEVICE Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONEDEVICE pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate pageext at all even if there's struct page around. One may...

CVE-2024-40948

Technical details for CVE-2024-40948 (e.g., affected products/versions, root cause, impact, fix) are not provided in the Connected documents. Monitor for updates and refer to the initial description for the vulnerability summary.

CVE-2024-40948 mm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagetablecheck: fix crash on ZONEDEVICE Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONEDEVICE pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate pageext at all even if there's struct page around. One may...

CVE-2024-40948

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagetablecheck: fix crash on ZONEDEVICE Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONEDEVICE pages: they map PFNs directly, and they don't allocate pageext at all even if there's struct page around. One may...

CVE-2022-48731 mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes When using devmrequestfreememregion and devmmemremappages to add ZONEDEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were hugee.g., 0x400000000, the nodeendpfn will be also...

CVE-2022-48731 mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes When using devmrequestfreememregion and devmmemremappages to add ZONEDEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were hugee.g., 0x400000000, the nodeendpfn will be also...

CVE-2022-48731 mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes When using devmrequestfreememregion and devmmemremappages to add ZONEDEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were hugee.g., 0x400000000, the nodeendpfn will be also...

CVE-2022-48731

CVE-2022-48731 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting mm/kmemleak: when using devm_request_free_mem_region() and devm_memremap_pages() to add ZONE_DEVICE memory, an excessively large end_pfn (e.g., 0x400000000) can make node_end_pfn() oversized, creating a huge hole between node_start_pfn() an...