CVE-2026-64182

drivers/base/memory: fix memory block reference leak in poison accounting

MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.11 % · percentile 1 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/base/memory: fix memory block reference leak in poison accounting memblk_nr_poison_inc() and memblk_nr_poison_sub() look up a memory block via find_memory_block_by_id(), which acquires a reference to the memory block device. Both helpers use the returned memory block without dropping that reference, leaking the device reference on each successful lookup. Drop the reference after updating nr_hwpoison.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 < 686b4283f82cd630fafd7ca9b03dfc080b3ec8fa ; affected 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 < ce60d9452a0f2effa72fd20ea270c59ca691d455 ; affected 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 < 24840b3139d7415144b81e4f9f4c44670d15bed9 ; affected 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 < 8502e2c2d0633f99d94d22ae8dabc10caae1fc2a ; affected 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 < 03a2cc1756a0570f887d624cd6c535ea0cbd4951
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.2 ; unaffected 0 < 6.2 ; unaffected 6.6.142 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.92 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.34 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.0.11 ≤ 7.0.*

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