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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64302"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:49:37.621Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:53:00.389Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64302"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64302.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64302"
title: "x86/mm: Fix freeing of PMD-sized vmemmap pages"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/mm: Fix freeing of PMD-sized vmemmap pages\n\nCommit bf9e4e30f353 (\"x86/mm: use pagetable_free()\"), switched from\nfreeing non-boot page tables through __free_pages() to\npagetable_free().\n\nHowever, the function is also called to free vmemmap pages.\n\nGiven that vmemmap pages are not page tables, already the page_ptdesc(page)\nis wrong. But worse, pagetable_free() calls:\n\n\t__free_pages(page, compound_order(page));\n\nSince vmemmap pages are not compound pages (see vmemmap_alloc_block())\n-- except for HVO, which doesn't apply here -- only first page of a\nPMD-sized vmemmap page is freed, leaking the other ones.\n\nFix it by properly decoupling pagetable and vmemmap freeing.\nfree_pagetable() no longer has to mess with SECTION_INFO, as only the\nvmemmap is marked like that in register_page_bootmem_memmap().\n\nThe indentation in remove_pmd_table() is messed up. Fix that while\ntouching it.\n\nBootmem info handling will soon be fixed up. For now, handle it\nsimilar to free_pagetable(), just avoiding the ifdef.\n\n[ dhansen: changelog munging. More imperative voice ]"
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