Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/inode: Prevent dumpmapping from accessing invalid dentry.dname.name It has been observed that a crash occurs during the hot removal of a memory device, in which the user is accessing hugetlb. See the call trace as follows:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm,hugetlb: Take the hugetlblock before decrementing h-resvhugepages. The h-hugepages counters are protected by the hugetlblock, but allochugepage has a corner-case scenario where it can decrement the counter outside of the lock...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: Un-sharing of page tables occurs during VMA splitting, not before. Currently, splitvma triggers the un-sharing of hugetlb page tables through vmops-maysplit. This occurs before the VMA lock and rmap locks are taken –...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fixed the issue where folio is still mapped after deletion. The migration process may encounter a race condition involving fallocating holes. The removeinodesinglefolio function will unmap the folio if it is still...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count The refcount may be unexpectedly increased through functions like trygetfolio, especially by calls such as splithugepages. In hugepmdunshare, we use the refcount to check wheth...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoiding soft lockup when using mprotect on a large memory area When calling mprotect on a large hugetlb memory area in our customer’s workload 300GB of hugetlb memory, soft lockup was observed: watchdog: BUG: soft...

CVE-2026-72174

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could trigger a self-deadlock condition within the huge pages hugetlb memory management subsystem. This occurs when a specific memory scan operation attempts to acquire a write lock while the same process already holds a read lock, causing th...

CVE-2026-72213

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's huge page memory management hugetlb. A mismatch in how reserved and non-reserved huge page control group cgroup charges are handled during memory allocation and deallocation can lead to an incorrect cgroup being uncharged. This issue results in a page counte...

CVE-2026-72175

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A race condition exists in the makeuffdwphugepte function, which is responsible for managing large memory pages HugeTLB Page Table Entries. This vulnerability occurs when the system attempts to update these memory entries, but a timing issue allows older,...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72174

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - fs/proc/taskmmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemapscanptehole A PAGEMAPSCAN ioctl requesting PMSCANWPMATCHING on a hugetlb VMA hangs the calling thread,...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72175

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - fs/proc/taskmmu: fix makeuffdwphugepte prot-update race Patch series userfaultfd/pagemap: pre- existing fixes. These are pre-existing bug fixes that were carrie...

AZL-96360 CVE-2026-74518 affecting package kernel 6.6.150.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocatefileregionentries allocatefileregionentries tops up resv-regioncache with freshly allocated fileregion descriptors. The allocation uses GFPKERNEL, so resv-lock is dropped around it: the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-74518

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocatefileregionentries allocatefileregionentries tops up resv-regioncache with freshly allocated fileregion descriptors. The allocation uses GFPKERNEL, so resv-lock is dropped around it: the...

CVE-2026-74518

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocatefileregionentries allocatefileregionentries tops up resv-regioncache with freshly allocated fileregion descriptors. The allocation uses GFPKERNEL, so resv-lock is dropped around it: the...

EUVD-2026-59711

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocatefileregionentries allocatefileregionentries tops up resv-regioncache with freshly allocated fileregion descriptors. The allocation uses GFPKERNEL, so resv-lock is dropped around it: the...

CVE-2026-74518

CVE-2026-74518 — Linux kernel: mm/hugetlb list corruption in allocate_file_region_entries() fixed. The bug allowed a corrupted resv->region_cache when top‑up relied on list_splice() leaving a stale source head during a retry loop under concurrent mappings of hugetlbfs. The fix uses list_splice...

CVE-2026-74518 mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocate_file_region_entries()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocatefileregionentries allocatefileregionentries tops up resv-regioncache with freshly allocated fileregion descriptors. The allocation uses GFPKERNEL, so resv-lock is dropped around it: the...

CVE-2026-72213

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb cgroup rsvd charge/uncharge mismatch In allochugetlbfolio, a single hcg pointer is used for both the rsvd and non-rsvd hugetlb cgroup charges. When mapchg is set, hugetlbcgroupchargecgrouprsvd stores the...

CVE-2026-72175

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/proc/taskmmu: fix makeuffdwphugepte prot-update race Patch series "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes". These are pre-existing bug fixes that were carried at the front of the userfaultfd RWP working-set-tracking series up...

CVE-2026-72174

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/proc/taskmmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemapscanptehole A PAGEMAPSCAN ioctl requesting PMSCANWPMATCHING on a hugetlb VMA hangs the calling thread, unkillably, as soon as the scan reaches an unpopulated part of the range:...