AZL-101499 CVE-2026-89987 affecting package kernel 6.6.157.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: transfer the pmd dirty bit to the folio on zap zaphugepmdfolio propagates the pmd young bit to the folio for the file case, but not the dirty bit. The pte path does propagate it, in zappresentfolioptes and so does...

kernel: pmd can become dirty without going through a COW cycle

A flaw was found in the patches used to fix the 'dirtycow' vulnerability CVE-2016-5195. An attacker, able to run local code, can exploit a race condition in transparent huge pages to modify usually read-only huge pages...