Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fixed a kernel crash that occurred when probing devdax devices. The commit 4917f55b4ef9 “mm/sparse-vmemmap: improved memory savings for compound devmaps” added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53706

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9...

SUSE CVE-2023-53706

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 "mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps" added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax devices. But how vmemmap...

CVE-2023-53706

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 "mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps" added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax devices. But how vmemmap...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53706

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 "mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps" added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax devices. But how vmemmap...

CVE-2023-53706 mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 "mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps" added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax devices. But how vmemmap...

CVE-2023-53706

Summary of CVE-2023-53706 : A Linux kernel vulnerability in mm/vmemmap/devdax caused a kernel crash during probing of devdax devices, linked to architecture-specific handling of vmemmap mappings. The root cause involved vmemmap_populate_compound_pages() not accounting for architecture-specific ma...

CVE-2023-53706 mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 "mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps" added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax devices. But how vmemmap...

CVE-2023-53706: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices commit 4917f55b4ef9 "mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps" added support for using optimized vmmemap for devdax devices. But how vmemmap...

kernel: mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices

A flaw was discovered in the device DAX devdax probing implementation of the Linux kernel memory management subsystem mm/vmemmap/devdax. Under specific architecture configurations for example POWER9 with hash MMU, the code path in vmemmappopulatecompoundpages did not properly account for...

PT-2025-43107

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 6.3.0-rc5-150500.34-default+ Description The Linux kernel had a flaw in the mm/vmemmap/devdax subsystem that could lead to a kernel crash when probing devdax devices. A commit 4917f55b4ef9 introduced optimized...