CVE-2026-43258
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap corruption when memory compaction is enabled. Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation. The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or instruction translations from surviving migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: - MM context invalidation (ASN rollover), - immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI), - synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required. The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing global TLB semantics. Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering. This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a | affected | git | 5593c9b255ae73f57a8b5e696a660032acbd67da | Unavailable | None listed |
| a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a | affected | git | d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a | affected | git | 03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f | Unavailable | None listed |
| a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a | affected | git | bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a | affected | git | dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6.16 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 2.6.16 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.160 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.75 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.16 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 6.19.6 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.19.* | None listed |
| 7.0 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |