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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72105

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:21:24 AM

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Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm-log: fix a bitset_size overflow on 32bit machines

Commit c20e36b7631d ("dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to
region_count overflow") made sure that region_count could fit in an
unsigned int. But the bitmap memory isn't allocated based on
region_count. It uses bitset_size (a size_t variable). The first step of
calculating bitset_size is to set it to region_count, rounded up to a
multiple of BITS_PER_LONG. If region_size is less than BITS_PER_LONG
smaller than UINT_MAX, it will get rounded up to 2^32. On a 32bit
architecture, this will make bitset_size wrap around to 0 and fail,
despite region_count being valid.

Since bitset_size gets divided by 8, it can hold any valid region_count.
It just needs a special case to handle the rollover. If it is 0, the
value rolled over, and bitset size should be set to the number of bytes
needed to hold 2^32 bits.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c3412b584e1fb6c665ff33ba7259253bc0082cb
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b0de5a3ac1fd42acb0dc1f80ac5747e3287d723
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/567602fa72d57169365cbc589e0b8c3be900636d
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79feb87ab2396d49b9b65e4bb815d33cc71cba47
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9743132a41f4d9d0e54c5f2adcb821b04796bab1
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdc4ddf9db2cb79f4ab86b1a509b7ac21b0b6cf5
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d05e0edfecf5260e6dddd28b2f0cce02bfc6ed7a
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0b0163a65758ec3a2361ae1cea407898c27f21e
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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