Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 15, 2026· Updated Aug 23, 2026

CVE-2026-72305

Description

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

VDUSE: avoid leaking information to userspace

The bounceing is not necessarily page aligned, so current VDUSE can leak kernel information through mapping bounce pages to userspace. Allocate bounce pages with __GFP_ZERO to avoid leaking information to userspace.

Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
Linux/VDUSEllm-create
osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 5.15.0, < 5.15.217

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/00335df9da2011e095f846d645cc2e9fd2907659nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae878f262bd1445c8c31511856a99962a05fe16nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e27a6aca608c9e04f091c29c420d03fafe0313nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e88c1bc3a41d9a260dd42bae8ad18fd4f35bbe1nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/690fb82c4122f8c2656fa4f842275132771b68b9nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1523803445ee0348f62b77793266dd981596e0nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde25641cbddd0c084e3320d08f755e7e6acfae5nvd

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