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CVE-2026-43258

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57aaffectedgit5593c9b255ae73f57a8b5e696a660032acbd67daUnavailableNone listed
a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57aaffectedgitd4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6UnavailableNone listed
a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57aaffectedgit03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90fUnavailableNone listed
a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57aaffectedgitbab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77UnavailableNone listed
a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57aaffectedgitdd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2.6.16affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.16UnavailableNone listed
6.6.160unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.75unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.16unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
6.19.6unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.19.*None listed
7.0unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed