In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured …
CVE-2026-72244 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 6.7
How to check
- Find out whether you run the affected product and which version, then compare it with the versions above.
How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
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).
Check your whole app
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/419d7d9306491f3e0e417cf794844c73cabee090
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4289531106ee175a6eb45db7d4f2734d1dae9887
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/56bc6384314fb9ae98975fb2af8b143097ede3dc
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7185c5262435b93e5eeffa647008992256b9c51a
Merged from NVD. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON