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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72172"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:37.795Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:00.307Z"
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-2026-72172"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72172.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72172"
title: "mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE\n\nIf DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early\nsection, section_activate() reuses the unoptimized boot memmap.  However,\ncompound_nr_pages() still assumes that vmemmap optimization is in effect\nand initializes only the reduced number of struct pages.  As a result, the\nremaining tail struct pages are left uninitialized, which can later lead\nto unexpected behavior or crashes.\n\nFix this by treating early sections as unoptimized when calculating how\nmany struct pages to initialize."
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