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Not yet scoredPublished Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2026-72101dm-integrity: fix leaking uninitialized kernel memory

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

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Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Aug 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before 50af3e51dc709384701dbc721b4bd865285c5f2c; from fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before 0c4e9bb1d4101030f55c869f18bd3ece39a77bbb; from fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before 8f0af8493009a61b4313e0a8c6e03fbc36fd43f9; from fb0987682c629c1d2c476f35f6fde405a5e304a4 before 7bb03b2b01b814a9fc14afbfc2cbb2cca5b34750
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