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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26983" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:27:15.635Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:28:50.558Z" 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-2024-26983" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26983.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26983" title: "bootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy\n\nOn the time to free xbc memory in xbc_exit(), memblock may has handed\nover memory to buddy allocator. So it doesn't make sense to free memory\nback to memblock. memblock_free() called by xbc_exit() even causes UAF bugs\non architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK disabled like x86.\nFollowing KASAN logs shows this case.\n\nThis patch fixes the xbc memory free problem by calling memblock_free()\nin early xbc init error rewind path and calling memblock_free_late() in\nxbc exit path to free memory to buddy allocator.\n\n[ 9.410890] ==================================================================\n[ 9.418962] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260\n[ 9.426850] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88845dd30000 by task swapper/0/1\n\n[ 9.435901] CPU: 9 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G U 6.9.0-rc3-00208-g586b5dfb51b9 #5\n[ 9.446403] Hardware name: Intel Corporation RPLP LP5 (CPU:RaptorLake)/RPLP LP5 (ID:13), BIOS IRPPN02.01.01.00.00.19.015.D-00000000 Dec 28 2023\n[ 9.460789] Call Trace:\n[ 9.463518] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 9.465859] dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70\n[ 9.469949] print_report+0xce/0x610\n[ 9.473944] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xf5/0x1b0\n[ 9.478619] ? memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260\n[ 9.483877] kasan_report+0xc6/0x100\n[ 9.487870] ? memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260\n[ 9.493125] memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260\n[ 9.498187] memblock_phys_free+0xb4/0x160\n[ 9.502762] ? __pfx_memblock_phys_free+0x10/0x10\n[ 9.508021] ? mutex_unlock+0x7e/0xd0\n[ 9.512111] ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10\n[ 9.516786] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x2d4/0x430\n[ 9.521850] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10\n[ 9.526426] xbc_exit+0x17/0x70\n[ 9.529935] kernel_init+0x38/0x1e0\n[ 9.533829] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xd/0x30\n[ 9.538601] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50\n[ 9.542596] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10\n[ 9.547170] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[ 9.551552] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n[ 9.555649] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:\n[ 9.561875] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x45dd30\n[ 9.570821] flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)\n[ 9.576271] page_type: 0xffffffff()\n[ 9.580167] raw: 0200000000000000 ffffea0011774c48 ffffea0012ba1848 0000000000000000\n[ 9.588823] raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\n[ 9.597476] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\n[ 9.605362] Memory state around the buggy address:\n[ 9.610714] ffff88845dd2ff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 9.618786] ffff88845dd2ff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 9.626857] \u003effff88845dd30000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n[ 9.634930] ^\n[ 9.638534] ffff88845dd30080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n[ 9.646605] ffff88845dd30100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n[ 9.654675] ==================================================================" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"40caa127f3c7279c75cb0c9684559fa314ee3a66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e7feb31a18c197d63a5e606025ed63c762f8918"},{"version":"40caa127f3c7279c75cb0c9684559fa314ee3a66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e46d3be714ad9652480c6db129ab8125e2d20ab7"},{"version":"40caa127f3c7279c75cb0c9684559fa314ee3a66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a7dfb8fcd3f29fc93161100179b27f24f3d5f35"},{"version":"40caa127f3c7279c75cb0c9684559fa314ee3a66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89f9a1e876b5a7ad884918c03a46831af202c8a0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.1.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.29","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","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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