CVE-2026-72101: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Linux: from 6.11, before 6.12.101 (fixed in 6.12.101); from 6.13, before 6.18.40 (fixed in 6.18.40); from 6.19, before 7.1.5 (fixed in 7.1.5)

Published 2026-08-15. Last modified 2026-08-17.