# 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-2026-72305"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:22.914Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:47:13.473Z"
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-2026-72305"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72305.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72305"
title: "VDUSE: avoid leaking information to userspace"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nVDUSE: avoid leaking information to userspace\n\nThe bounceing is not necessarily page aligned, so current VDUSE can\nleak kernel information through mapping bounce pages to\nuserspace. Allocate bounce pages with __GFP_ZERO to avoid leaking\ninformation to userspace."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41e27a6aca608c9e04f091c29c420d03fafe0313"},{"version":"8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ae878f262bd1445c8c31511856a99962a05fe16"},{"version":"8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fde25641cbddd0c084e3320d08f755e7e6acfae5"},{"version":"8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e88c1bc3a41d9a260dd42bae8ad18fd4f35bbe1"},{"version":"8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"690fb82c4122f8c2656fa4f842275132771b68b9"},{"version":"8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00335df9da2011e095f846d645cc2e9fd2907659"},{"version":"8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c1523803445ee0348f62b77793266dd981596e0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","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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