Medium [CVE-2026-68436] use kvzalloc to allocate struct dc
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68436 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
use kvzalloc to allocate struct dc. Red Hat rates this low (CVSS 5.5).
Weakness: CWE-770.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; and 4 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4; Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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