userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-64514
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At a glance

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present() userfaultfd_must_wait() and userfaultfd_huge_must_wait() read the PTE without taking the page table lock and then apply pte_write() / huge_pte_write() to it. Those accessors decode bits from the present encoding only; on a swap or migration entry they read the offset bits that happen to share the same position and return an undefined result. The intent of the check is "is this fault still WP-blocked?". A non-marker swap entry means the page is in transit -- the userfault context the original fault delivered against is no longer the same, and the swap-in or migration completion path will re-deliver a fresh fault if userspace still needs to handle it. Worst case under the current code the garbage write bit says "wait", and the thread stays asleep until a UFFDIO_WAKE that may never arrive. Gate the writability check on pte_present() so the lockless re-check only inspects present-PTE bits when the entry is actually present. The non-present, non-marker case returns "don't wait" and lets the fault path retry.

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European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 369cd2121be440543280b91056de187f625d0dbb < a5700a4c1c9099ac2ac73fe8a09cf059972e0d2f ; affected 369cd2121be440543280b91056de187f625d0dbb < d4026417e8184d13850a0bad4d96ceb6ed9f7152 ; affected 369cd2121be440543280b91056de187f625d0dbb < 29e6f952c5fb7dc1d6b90fe5b7f36063d44ddae0 ; affected 369cd2121be440543280b91056de187f625d0dbb < 5f4dbdb0a87596214076b20b94f2b71b522170b3 ; affected 369cd2121be440543280b91056de187f625d0dbb < a6e9a4939e359599701b1da351e84f72e021443a ; affected 369cd2121be440543280b91056de187f625d0dbb < 60d696a037eeeedfb57756dfe7ec08a1587c8631
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.11 ; unaffected 0 < 4.11 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

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