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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26906" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:27:53.573Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:19.767Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26906" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26906.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26906" title: "x86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault()\n\nWhen trying to use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read vsyscall page\nthrough a bpf program, the following oops was reported:\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffff600000\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 3231067 P4D 3231067 PUD 3233067 PMD 3235067 PTE 0\n Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n CPU: 1 PID: 20390 Comm: test_progs ...... 6.7.0+ #58\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ......\n RIP: 0010:copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110\n ......\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110\n bpf_probe_read_kernel+0x1d/0x50\n bpf_prog_2061065e56845f08_do_probe_read+0x51/0x8d\n trace_call_bpf+0xc5/0x1c0\n perf_call_bpf_enter.isra.0+0x69/0xb0\n perf_syscall_enter+0x13e/0x200\n syscall_trace_enter+0x188/0x1c0\n do_syscall_64+0xb5/0xe0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n ......\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nThe oops is triggered when:\n\n1) A bpf program uses bpf_probe_read_kernel() to read from the vsyscall\npage and invokes copy_from_kernel_nofault() which in turn calls\n__get_user_asm().\n\n2) Because the vsyscall page address is not readable from kernel space,\na page fault exception is triggered accordingly.\n\n3) handle_page_fault() considers the vsyscall page address as a user\nspace address instead of a kernel space address. This results in the\nfix-up setup by bpf not being applied and a page_fault_oops() is invoked\ndue to SMAP.\n\nConsidering handle_page_fault() has already considered the vsyscall page\naddress as a userspace address, fix the problem by disallowing vsyscall\npage read for copy_from_kernel_nofault()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"75a1a607bb7e6d918be3aca11ec2214a275392f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e4694e65b6db4c3de125115dd4f55848cc48381"},{"version":"75a1a607bb7e6d918be3aca11ec2214a275392f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8a67fe34b76a49320b33032228a794f40b0316b"},{"version":"75a1a607bb7e6d918be3aca11ec2214a275392f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f175de546a3eb77614d94d4c02550181c0a8493e"},{"version":"75a1a607bb7e6d918be3aca11ec2214a275392f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57f78c46f08198e1be08ffe99c4c1ccc12855bf5"},{"version":"75a1a607bb7e6d918be3aca11ec2214a275392f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29bd6f86904682adafe9affbc7f79b14defcaff8"},{"version":"75a1a607bb7e6d918be3aca11ec2214a275392f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32019c659ecfe1d92e3bf9fcdfbb11a7c70acd58"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.214","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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