CVE-2023-2598

CVE-2023-2598 Privilege Escalation Understand the Compound Page and folio mechanisms in Linux through CVE-2023-2598, and subsequently see if it's possible to complete the exploitation of the 1day CVE-2023-6560. Compound Page huge page Memory is growing larger and larger, but the basic page...

AZL-101217 CVE-2026-89961 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.157.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/mm: fix wrong addrpfn tracking in compound vmemmap population vmemmappopulatecompoundpages uses addrpfn to determine the PFN offset within a compound page and to decide whether the current vmemmap slot should be populated...

CVE-2026-89961

CVE-2026-89961 affects the Linux kernel 's powerpc/mm subsystem, specifically the vmemmap_populate_compound_pages() function. The root cause is a mismatch in how addr_pfn is advanced relative to the loop's addr variable in vmemmap address space. Because each PAGE_SIZE step in addr spans PAGE_SIZE...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: TCP: Add sanity checks to rx zerocopy The purpose of TCP rx zerocopy is to map pages that are initially allocated by NIC drivers, not pages owned by a file system. This patch adds the following additional checks to canmapfrag:...

CVE-2021-47450

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 a...

CVE-2021-47450

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 a...

CVE-2021-47450

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 a...

CVE-2021-47450 KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 a...

CVE-2021-47450 KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix host stage-2 PGD refcount The KVM page-table library refcounts the pages of concatenated stage-2 PGDs individually. However, when running KVM in protected mode, the host's stage-2 PGD is currently managed by EL2 a...

CVE-2021-47450

CVE-2021-47450 affects the Linux kernel KVM arm64 when running in protected mode. The issue was in the host stage-2 page-table (PGD) refcount: the KVM page-table library refcounts concatenated stage-2 PGD pages individually, but in EL2 the host stage-2 PGD could be a single high-order compound pa...

CVE-2023-52739 Fix page corruption caused by racy check in __free_pages

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Fix page corruption caused by racy check in freepages When we upgraded our kernel, we started seeing some page corruption like the following consistently: BUG: Bad page state in process ganesha.nfsd pfn:1304ca page:0000000022261c...