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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2025-68231",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68231",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-12-16T13:57:23.712Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:49:21.992Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "mm/mempool: fix poisoning order>0 pages with HIGHMEM",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/mempool: fix poisoning order>0 pages with HIGHMEM\n\nThe kernel test has reported:\n\n  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffba000\n  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\n  *pde = 03171067 *pte = 00000000\n  Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1]\n  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G                T   6.18.0-rc2-00031-gec7f31b2a2d3 #1 NONE  a1d066dfe789f54bc7645c7989957d2bdee593ca\n  Tainted: [T]=RANDSTRUCT\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n  EIP: memset (arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:168 arch/x86/lib/memcpy_32.c:17)\n  Code: a5 8b 4d f4 83 e1 03 74 02 f3 a4 83 c4 04 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 73 41 01 00 90 90 90 3e 8d 74 26 00 55 89 e5 57 56 89 c6 89 d0 89 f7 <f3> aa 89 f0 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 53 41 01 00 cc cc cc 55 89 e5 53 57 56\n  EAX: 0000006b EBX: 00000015 ECX: 001fefff EDX: 0000006b\n  ESI: fffb9000 EDI: fffba000 EBP: c611fbf0 ESP: c611fbe8\n  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010287\n  CR0: 80050033 CR2: fffba000 CR3: 0316e000 CR4: 00040690\n  Call Trace:\n   poison_element (mm/mempool.c:83 mm/mempool.c:102)\n   mempool_init_node (mm/mempool.c:142 mm/mempool.c:226)\n   mempool_init_noprof (mm/mempool.c:250 (discriminator 1))\n   ? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640)\n   bio_integrity_initfn (block/bio-integrity.c:483 (discriminator 8))\n   ? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640)\n   do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1283)\n\nChristoph found out this is due to the poisoning code not dealing\nproperly with CONFIG_HIGHMEM because only the first page is mapped but\nthen the whole potentially high-order page is accessed.\n\nWe could give up on HIGHMEM here, but it's straightforward to fix this\nwith a loop that's mapping, poisoning or checking and unmapping\nindividual pages.",
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          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
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              "version": "4.1",
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            {
              "version": "0",
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              "version": "6.1.159",
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              "version": "6.6.118",
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              "version": "6.12.60",
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              "version": "6.17.10",
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              "version": "6.18",
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