# 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-2026-72107"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:49.581Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:28.417Z"
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-2026-72107"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72107.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72107"
title: "dm era: fix out-of-bounds memory access for non-zero start sector"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm era: fix out-of-bounds memory access for non-zero start sector\n\ndm-era tracks writes in target-relative blocks, but era_map() calculates\nthe writeset block before applying the target offset.  Tables with a\nnon-zero start sector can therefore pass an absolute mapped-device block\nto metadata_current_marked().\n\nIf the absolute block is beyond the current writeset size,\nwriteset_marked() tests past the end of the in-core bitset.  KASAN reports\nthis as a vmalloc-out-of-bounds access.\n\nApply the target offset before calculating the era block so writeset\nlookups use the target-relative block number."
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