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FKIE_CVE-2026-72244

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:21 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:18

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured The try_harder contiguous fallback could return a range whose start offset did not match the caller's min_block_size. When a candidate's start is misaligned, realign it: free the misaligned run and reallocate exactly @size at the next lower min_block_size boundary. This keeps the returned size unchanged with no surplus to trim, and rejects the request only when no aligned candidate fits. v2: align misaligned candidates down to min_block_size instead of bailing out, for both the RHS and LHS paths (Matthew).

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419d7d9306491f3e0e417cf794844c73cabee090
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4289531106ee175a6eb45db7d4f2734d1dae9887
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56bc6384314fb9ae98975fb2af8b143097ede3dc
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7185c5262435b93e5eeffa647008992256b9c51a

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-72244 (GCVE-0-2026-72244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:41

Title

gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4289531106ee175a6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7185c5262435b93e5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419d7d9306491f3e0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56bc6384314fb9ae9…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 4289531106ee175a6eb45db7d4f2734d1dae9887 (git) Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 7185c5262435b93e5eeffa647008992256b9c51a (git) Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 419d7d9306491f3e0e417cf794844c73cabee090 (git) Affected: 0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28 , < 56bc6384314fb9ae98975fb2af8b143097ede3dc (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.7 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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