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

CVE-2026-43258
HIGH 7.8

En bref

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · centile 7 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
Attribuée par
Linux
Statut NVD
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.

Faiblesses (CWE)

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
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)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
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