CVE-2026-74672

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc: acquire initmm lock on huge vmap to avoid ptdump UAF Patch series "mm: fix UAF caused by race between ptdump and vmap pgtable freeing", v6. Kernel page table walkers fall into two broad categories - those ranges where...

CVE-2026-74672

CVE-2026-74672 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel affecting both x86 and arm64 architectures. The root cause is a race condition between the ptdump page table walker and the vmap huge page table promotion logic: vmap frees lower page tables when promoting to huge leaf entries w...