{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72169 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72169 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72169 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72169 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72169 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72169/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72169/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72169","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72169/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72169","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-72169","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72169","GHSA-8wjg-7mhv-9g56","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72169"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A kernel memory management flaw allows local attackers to cause denial of service by specifying unaligned scratch sizes via command line.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"misconfiguration"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkho: make sure scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES\n\nWhen using scratch_scale, the scratch sizes are rounded up to\nCMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES since they will be released as MIGRATE_CMA. This\nis not done when using fixed scratch sizes via command line. This can\nresult in user specifying a size which is not aligned, and thus kernel\nreleasing a pageblock that is only partially scratch.\n\nDo the rounding up for both cases in scratch_size_update().","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"kho: make sure scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES","id":"CVE-2026-72169","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"misconfiguration","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"9p: skip nlink update in cacheless mode to fix WARN_ON","id":"CVE-2026-72170"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"mtd: maps: vmu-flash: fix fault in unaligned fixup","id":"CVE-2026-72168"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A kernel memory management flaw allows local attackers to cause denial of service by specifying unaligned scratch sizes via command line.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72169/"}