# 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-2026-43303"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:11:23.561Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:16:26.022Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43303"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43303.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43303"
title: "mm/page_alloc: clear page-\u003eprivate in free_pages_prepare()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/page_alloc: clear page-\u003eprivate in free_pages_prepare()\n\nSeveral subsystems (slub, shmem, ttm, etc.) use page-\u003eprivate but don't\nclear it before freeing pages.  When these pages are later allocated as\nhigh-order pages and split via split_page(), tail pages retain stale\npage-\u003eprivate values.\n\nThis causes a use-after-free in the swap subsystem.  The swap code uses\npage-\u003eprivate to track swap count continuations, assuming freshly\nallocated pages have page-\u003eprivate == 0.  When stale values are present,\nswap_count_continued() incorrectly assumes the continuation list is valid\nand iterates over uninitialized page-\u003elru containing LIST_POISON values,\ncausing a crash:\n\n  KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000100-0xdead000000000107]\n  RIP: 0010:__do_sys_swapoff+0x1151/0x1860\n\nFix this by clearing page-\u003eprivate in free_pages_prepare(), ensuring all\nfreed pages have clean state regardless of previous use."
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