> CVE-2026-68163

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PUBLISHED
2026-08-10 13:20
MODIFIED
2026-08-10 13:20
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
0.17%
Top 94.6%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD 🔗 2026-08-10 RED HAT 🔗 2026-08-16 FIRST EPSS 🔗 2026-10-25 OSV 🔗 2026-08-13

> DESCRIPTION

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_vma_mapped: fix device-private PMD handling Commit 65edfda6f3f2 ("mm/rmap: extend rmap and migration support device-private entries") introduced the concept of device-private PMD entries, but did not correctly update the rmap walk code to account for them. As a result, when page_vma_mapped_walk() encounters device-private PMD entries, it takes no action other than to acquire the PMD lock and exit. However this is highly problematic for two reasons - firstly, device private entries possess a PFN so check_pmd() needs to be called to ensure an overlapping PFN range. Secondly, and more importantly, if PVMW_MIGRATION is set the caller assumes the returned entry is a migration entry, resulting in memory corruption when the caller tries to interpret the device private entry as such. In addition, commit 146287290023 ("mm/huge_memory: implement device-private THP splitting") allowed device private PMDs to be split like THP mappings, but again did not update this code path. As a result, we might race a PMD split prior to acquiring the PMD lock. This patch addresses all of these issues by invoking check_pmd(), ensuring PMVW_MIGRATION is not set and checks whether a split raced us we do for PMD THP and migration entries. Instead of checking for a subset of the cases after taking the pmd_lock(), put device-private along with pmd_trans_huge() and pmd_is_migration_entry(). Also remove thp_migration_supported() as it is already guarded by pmd_is_migration_entry(). [[email protected]: fix Raspberry Pi 1 build, per David]

> AFFECTED_PRODUCTS

ℹ️ Aucun produit affecté n'a encore été publié par NVD pour cette CVE.

> RED HAT SEVERITY ASSESSMENT

THREAT SEVERITY
Moderate

> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

mm/page_vma_mapped: fix device-private PMD handling

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown
Linux / Kernel

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
10/08/2026 13:20
Source: NVD
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 16/08/2026 05:02
REDHAT
Champ modifié: Sévérité Red Hat
Ancienne valeur:
N/A
Nouvelle valeur:
{ "threat_severity": "Moderate", "severity_scale": null }
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 16/08/2026 05:02
REDHAT
Champ modifié: Red Hat
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
Total des modifications: 2 Dernière mise à jour: 2 months ago

> REFERENCES

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab6209f4b48a98ef14d6766acdb62aa9bb32e670
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f84ca9b1888d8fce7dfefe0e750fa971f8797486
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