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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89717"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:30.698Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:48:28.119Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89717"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89717.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89717"
title: "zram: set default primary compressor in zram_destroy_comps()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nzram: set default primary compressor in zram_destroy_comps()\n\nPatch series \"zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko\".\n\nSashiko drove by and reported [1] a couple of zram issues:\na possible BUG_ON() in zlib code due to missing winbits range\nvalidation and one possible NULL-ptr dereference in zcomp.\nBoth are low risk yet still worth fixing.\n\n\nThis patch (of 2):\n\nzram_destroy_comps() resets all compressors and leaves them set to NULL,\nincluding the primary one, which is invalid device state, as now\ncomp_algorithm_show()-\u003estrcmp() can be called on a NULL compressor.  Set\ndefault primary compressor in zram_destroy_comps()."
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