CVE-2026-72107 (GCVE-0-2026-72107)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:52 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:40
VLAI
Title
dm era: fix out-of-bounds memory access for non-zero start sector
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm era: fix out-of-bounds memory access for non-zero start sector dm-era tracks writes in target-relative blocks, but era_map() calculates the writeset block before applying the target offset. Tables with a non-zero start sector can therefore pass an absolute mapped-device block to metadata_current_marked(). If the absolute block is beyond the current writeset size, writeset_marked() tests past the end of the in-core bitset. KASAN reports this as a vmalloc-out-of-bounds access. Apply the target offset before calculating the era block so writeset lookups use the target-relative block number.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < fe94a0b14010a3c267ff9a2508afb4f27ff1c5bf (git)
Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < e3ffa8e492e5cdee62d916ee3e9244ccce2b73c5 (git)
Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < 9946a7176bd8c25ddd6e5f1799c54e572ee6bf0f (git)
Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < 7e1822f83c5a1ee7b4a19e98edde8770a10b4c71 (git)
Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < db5f9b4601f0012038e5a2628aedec2f47933380 (git)
Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < 1fcb5e29dd7a5b85adb9d8b539911741d878e829 (git)
Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < bafe3e720cdac38cd7ea4eb7852a8f2dbe1bbfe6 (git)
Affected: eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 , < a868196f03c2b19418ae3d2b69e195d668a271e5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-10-03T00:29:40Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2026-72107",
      "id": "CVE-2026-72107",
      "initial_release_date": "2026-08-28T16:40:41Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "358",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "6",
      "product_status:recommended": "145",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2026-72107",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2026-72107.json",
      "version": "6"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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