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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72292"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:13.248Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:11:54.937Z"
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-2026-72292"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72292.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72292"
title: "KVM: s390: Initialize KVM_S390_GET_CMMA_BITS memory"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: s390: Initialize KVM_S390_GET_CMMA_BITS memory\n\nkvm_s390_get_cmma_bits() allocates its output buffer with vmalloc(),\nwhich does not zero the returned pages:\n\n\tvalues = vmalloc(args-\u003ecount);\n\nIn the non-peek (migration) path, dat_get_cmma() reports a byte count\nspanning from the first to the last dirty page, but __dat_get_cmma_pte()\nwrites values[gfn - start] only for pages whose CMMA dirty bit is set.\nThe walk uses DAT_WALK_IGN_HOLES, so clean and unmapped pages that lie\nbetween two dirty pages within the reported span are visited but never\nstore their byte.  Those gaps (up to KVM_S390_MAX_BIT_DISTANCE pages\neach) stay uninitialized yet fall inside [0, count) and are copied out\nby copy_to_user(), disclosing stale kernel memory to user space.\n\nBefore the switch to the new gmap implementation the buffer was fully\npopulated for every gfn in the span, so no uninitialized bytes were\nexposed; the dirty-only walk introduced the leak.\n\nUse vzalloc() so the gaps read back as zero."
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