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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64514"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:52:05.878Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:57:05.592Z"
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-2026-64514"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64514.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64514"
title: "userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nuserfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present()\n\nuserfaultfd_must_wait() and userfaultfd_huge_must_wait() read the PTE\nwithout taking the page table lock and then apply pte_write() /\nhuge_pte_write() to it.  Those accessors decode bits from the present\nencoding only; on a swap or migration entry they read the offset bits that\nhappen to share the same position and return an undefined result.\n\nThe intent of the check is \"is this fault still WP-blocked?\".  A\nnon-marker swap entry means the page is in transit -- the userfault\ncontext the original fault delivered against is no longer the same, and\nthe swap-in or migration completion path will re-deliver a fresh fault if\nuserspace still needs to handle it.  Worst case under the current code the\ngarbage write bit says \"wait\", and the thread stays asleep until a\nUFFDIO_WAKE that may never arrive.\n\nGate the writability check on pte_present() so the lockless re-check only\ninspects present-PTE bits when the entry is actually present.  The\nnon-present, non-marker case returns \"don't wait\" and lets the fault path\nretry."
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