# 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-2026-72097"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:42.941Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:08:08.851Z"
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-2026-72097"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72097.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72097"
title: "dm-verity: fix a possible NULL pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-verity: fix a possible NULL pointer dereference\n\nFix a possible NULL pointer dereference dm_verity_loadpin_is_bdev_trusted\nif the device has no table."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b6c1c5745ccc68ac5d57c7ffb51ea25a86d0e97b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d4f1d307ac0f4f55cebeb192a90a235aa060ed1"},{"version":"b6c1c5745ccc68ac5d57c7ffb51ea25a86d0e97b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f04b390add2e14c5b36829a0a1529c4eb65a2e1"},{"version":"b6c1c5745ccc68ac5d57c7ffb51ea25a86d0e97b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32f8231c81bd45ab92d49b646a154551f7d54f4f"},{"version":"b6c1c5745ccc68ac5d57c7ffb51ea25a86d0e97b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f15eaa3801f2f9207dff156f1ab3e7436ce52bb1"},{"version":"b6c1c5745ccc68ac5d57c7ffb51ea25a86d0e97b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81f41d989a32458ff3512f6b05458eaf8926579c"},{"version":"b6c1c5745ccc68ac5d57c7ffb51ea25a86d0e97b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e72b793ae440f6900fb17a4b8518c707b5cd3e17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"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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