CVE-2026-72172 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_87-default package, versions <1-150700.15.3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELLIVEPATCH6401507005387DEFAULT-21878382
  • published30 Oct 2026
  • disclosed29 Oct 2026

Introduced: 29 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-72172  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_87-default to version 1-150700.15.3.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_87-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_87-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE

If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, section_activate() reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compound_nr_pages() still assumes that vmemmap optimization is in effect and initializes only the reduced number of struct pages. As a result, the remaining tail struct pages are left uninitialized, which can later lead to unexpected behavior or crashes.

Fix this by treating early sections as unoptimized when calculating how many struct pages to initialize.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1