Out-of-bounds read in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-72487

Vulnerability identifier: #VU142962

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2026-72487

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read in pci_get_rom_size in drivers/pci/rom.c when processing a broken PCI ROM image. A local user can provide a malformed ROM layout to trigger a kernel crash and cause a denial of service.

On some arm64 systems, exploitation may instead trigger an alignment fault due to unaligned IOMEM access.

Linux kernel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching
kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_328-default
dlm-kmp-default
kernel-default-man
kernel-macros
kernel-devel
kernel-source
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo
kernel-default-base
kernel-default-devel
cluster-md-kmp-default
gfs2-kmp-default
ocfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo
gfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo
kernel-default
ocfs2-kmp-default
kernel-default-base-debuginfo
dlm-kmp-default-debuginfo
cluster-md-kmp-default-debuginfo
kernel-syms
kernel-default-kgraft
kernel-default-debuginfo
kernel-default-kgraft-devel
kernel-default-debugsource

Install security update from vendor's repository.

Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3
kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_328-default - update to 1-8.5.1
dlm-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-man - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-macros - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-devel - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-source - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-base - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-devel - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
cluster-md-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
gfs2-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
ocfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
gfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
ocfs2-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-base-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
dlm-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
cluster-md-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-syms - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-kgraft - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-kgraft-devel - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-debugsource - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d495446ec7ace5b61da366ffb161ee8319dd9a2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4997873e3abbad47a9e1e4abd05f045f77a74f22
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/538796b807fcfb81b2ce40cc97a614fd8588feb5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/721ad5b72448b5065ed309017ab563205f162404
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/724042f8f98d2594b9d164549fd4292c6bd58120
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd5b242d5848369b9e957340a7e30adee7b6763d

• Out-of-bounds read in Linux kernel pci driver
• SUSE update for the Linux Kernel