CVE-2026-46281
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
08/06/2026
Last modified:
08/06/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
vmalloc: fix buffer overflow in vrealloc_node_align()<br />
<br />
Commit 4c5d3365882d ("mm/vmalloc: allow to set node and align in<br />
vrealloc") added the ability to force a new allocation if the current<br />
pointer is on the wrong NUMA node, or if an alignment constraint is not<br />
met, even if the user is shrinking the allocation.<br />
<br />
On this path (need_realloc), the code allocates a new object of &#39;size&#39;<br />
bytes and then memcpy()s &#39;old_size&#39; bytes into it. If the request is to<br />
shrink the object (size



