# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23211"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-18T14:16:27.015Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:02:28.280Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23211"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23211.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23211"
title: "mm, swap: restore swap_space attr aviod kernel panic"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm, swap: restore swap_space attr aviod kernel panic\n\ncommit 8b47299a411a (\"mm, swap: mark swap address space ro and add context\ndebug check\") made the swap address space read-only.  It may lead to\nkernel panic if arch_prepare_to_swap returns a failure under heavy memory\npressure as follows,\n\nel1_abort+0x40/0x64\nel1h_64_sync_handler+0x48/0xcc\nel1h_64_sync+0x84/0x88\nerrseq_set+0x4c/0xb8 (P)\n__filemap_set_wb_err+0x20/0xd0\nshrink_folio_list+0xc20/0x11cc\nevict_folios+0x1520/0x1be4\ntry_to_shrink_lruvec+0x27c/0x3dc\nshrink_one+0x9c/0x228\nshrink_node+0xb3c/0xeac\ndo_try_to_free_pages+0x170/0x4f0\ntry_to_free_pages+0x334/0x534\n__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim+0x90/0x158\n__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x334/0x588\n__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x224/0x2fc\n__folio_alloc_noprof+0x14/0x64\nvma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio+0x34/0x44\ndo_pte_missing+0xad4/0x1040\nhandle_mm_fault+0x4a4/0x790\ndo_page_fault+0x288/0x5f8\ndo_translation_fault+0x38/0x54\ndo_mem_abort+0x54/0xa8\n\nRestore swap address space as not ro to avoid the panic."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8b47299a411a178d572aaac31ff7ab33a8bd27e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0020cbd26380177b9fb8b7e75a8f7bdba79db20"},{"version":"8b47299a411a178d572aaac31ff7ab33a8bd27e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0f3c0845a4ff68d403c568266d17e9cc553e561"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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