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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64418" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:57.594Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:55:17.788Z" 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-2026-64418" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64418.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64418" title: "mm: shrinker: fix shrinker_info teardown race with expansion" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: shrinker: fix shrinker_info teardown race with expansion\n\nexpand_shrinker_info() iterates all visible memcgs under shrinker_mutex,\nincluding memcgs that have not finished -\u003ecss_online() yet.\n\nOnce pn-\u003eshrinker_info has been published, teardown must stay serialized\nwith expand_shrinker_info() until that memcg is either fully online or no\nlonger visible to iteration. Today alloc_shrinker_info() breaks that rule\nby dropping shrinker_mutex before freeing a partially initialized\nshrinker_info array, which may cause the following race:\n\nCPU0 CPU1\n==== ====\n\ncss_create\n--\u003e list_add_tail_rcu(&css-\u003esibling, &parent_css-\u003echildren);\n online_css\n --\u003e mem_cgroup_css_online\n --\u003e alloc_shrinker_info\n --\u003e alloc node0 info\n rcu_assign_pointer(C-\u003enode0-\u003eshrinker_info, old0)\n alloc node1 info -\u003e FAIL -\u003e goto err\n mutex_unlock(shrinker_mutex)\n\n shrinker_alloc()\n --\u003e shrinker_memcg_alloc\n --\u003e mutex_lock(shrinker_mutex)\n expand_shrinker_info\n --\u003e mem_cgroup_iter see the memcg\n expand_one_shrinker_info\n --\u003e old0 = C-\u003enode0-\u003eshrinker_info\n memcpy(new-\u003eunit, old0-\u003eunit, ...);\n\n free_shrinker_info\n --\u003e kvfree(old0);\n\n /* double free !! */\n kvfree_rcu(old0, rcu);\n\nThe same problem exists later in mem_cgroup_css_online(). If\nalloc_shrinker_info() succeeds but a subsequent objcg allocation fails,\nthe free_objcg -\u003e free_shrinker_info() unwind path tears down the already\npublished pn-\u003eshrinker_info arrays without shrinker_mutex. The\nexpand_one_shrinker_info() can race with that teardown in the same way,\nleading to use-after-free or double-free of the old shrinker_info.\n\nFix this by serializing shrinker_info teardown with shrinker_mutex, and by\nkeeping alloc_shrinker_info() error cleanup inside the locked section." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"307bececcd1205bcb67a3c0d53a69db237ccc9d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9a280a9a454ed514636351d53fe2a233dc5054b"},{"version":"307bececcd1205bcb67a3c0d53a69db237ccc9d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6465ff3ce65131c774a312d450abe10f4b9f3875"},{"version":"307bececcd1205bcb67a3c0d53a69db237ccc9d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"284c267f013e45d8c89d9fb9373105dc8e6c0947"},{"version":"307bececcd1205bcb67a3c0d53a69db237ccc9d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65476d31d8056e859c48580f82295ce159196ffe"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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