# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72027"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:51.219Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:39:33.783Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72027"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72027.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72027"
title: "mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free()\n\nfree_pages_prepare() can fail but compaction_free() does not handle the\nfailure case.  Failed pages should not be added back to cc-\u003efreepages for\nfuture use, since they can be either PageHWPoison or free_page_is_bad()\nand might cause data corruption."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de8577db09039d4950239b01446ab5ead9028ab4"},{"version":"733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"018d7ad26cb8bdfe9842f2ca68a42b0bfdcc82fe"},{"version":"733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23afc3786acf359c135093893fb43a436768c832"},{"version":"733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7da7d599b8a83271c464adfd5ef160202b470570"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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