alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43258
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap corruption when memory compaction is enabled. Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation. The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or instruction translations from surviving migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: - MM context invalidation (ASN rollover), - immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI), - synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required. The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing global TLB semantics. Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering. This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < 01cddfc34bf2a813a2773f1d607305515be55409 ; affected a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < 5593c9b255ae73f57a8b5e696a660032acbd67da ; affected a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6 ; affected a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < 03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f ; affected a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77 ; affected a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.16 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.16 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.75 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.16 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD