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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-80956",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-08-26T14:34:25.804Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-09-11T19:42:24.541Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:45:40.093Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-pcache: only hand out initialized cache segments\n\nget_cache_segment() scans the segment map up to cache->n_segs, the\nphysical device segment count, but cache_segs_init() only initializes\nthe first cache_info->n_segs segments. A crafted image with\ncache_info->n_segs smaller than the device count leaves the remaining\npcache_cache_segment structs zeroed (segment.data == NULL), and the\nallocator can hand one to cache_kset_close(), which writes through the\nreturned segment's data pointer with no NULL check.\n\nBound the allocator's search to cache_info->n_segs so only initialized\nsegments are ever returned. A conforming cache sets n_segs equal to the\ndevice segment count, so this rejects nothing legitimate."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e3116283ed2c6a6a1fa662862a4b4d7d2701a2"
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