CVE-2026-6386 Missing large page handling in pmap_pkru_update_range()

In order to apply a particular protection key to an address range, the kernel must update the corresponding page table entries. The subroutine which handled this failed to take into account the presence of 1GB largepage mappings created using the shmcreatelargepage3 interface. In particular, it...

AZL-51342 CVE-2024-50017 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm/identmap: Use gbpages only where full GB page should be mapped. When identpudinit uses only GB pages to create identity maps, large ranges of addresses not actually requested can be included in the resulting table; a 4K...