Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2026-72101

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm-integrity: fix leaking uninitialized kernel memory

If hash size is less than device's tuple size, dm-integrity is supposed to zero the remaining space. There was a bug in the code that zeroing didn't work. This commit fixes it.

Affected products

Linux/dm-integrityllm-fuzzy
Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c4e9bb1d4101030f55c869f18bd3ece39a77bbbnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/50af3e51dc709384701dbc721b4bd865285c5f2cnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bb03b2b01b814a9fc14afbfc2cbb2cca5b34750nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f0af8493009a61b4313e0a8c6e03fbc36fd43f9nvd

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