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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80893" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-04T17:11:09.199Z" updatedAt: "2026-09-04T17:11:09.199Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-80893" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80893.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80893" title: "mm/hugetlb: fix swap entry corruption when clearing uffd-wp at fork()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/hugetlb: fix swap entry corruption when clearing uffd-wp at fork()\n\ncopy_hugetlb_page_range() clears the uffd-wp bit of migration and hwpoison\nentries with huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(), which operates on the present-PTE\nbit position. Swap entries keep the uffd-wp state elsewhere -- the\nmigration branch reads and sets it with pte_swp_uffd_wp() and\npte_swp_mkuffd_wp() -- and the present-PTE position falls into the swap\npayload. On x86-64 it lands in the inverted swap offset, where a\nnaturally-aligned hugetlb PFN always has the affected bit set, so the\nclear advances the encoded PFN by two pages.\n\nNo userfaultfd needs to be involved: the clear is guarded only by the\nchild VMA not being uffd-wp registered, so a plain fork() with an\nin-flight hugetlb migration entry (or a poisoned hugetlb page) corrupts\nthe entry copied into the child. Instrumenting the clear and forking\nafter MADV_HWPOISON on a 2MB anon hugetlb page shows:\n\n offset before=120e00\n offset after =120e02\n\nThe fallout is mostly latent: rmap walks match migration entries by folio\nrange and remove_migration_pte() rebuilds the PTE from the folio, so a\nwithin-folio PFN skew heals once migration completes. But any path that\nre-encodes the corrupted offset -- e.g. hugetlb_change_protection()\nrewriting a writable migration entry via\nmake_readable_migration_entry(swp_offset(entry)) -- propagates it.\n\nMigration entries legitimately carry uffd-wp, so clear it with\npte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(), matching copy_nonpresent_pte() and\nmove_huge_pte().\n\nA hwpoison entry, on the other hand, never carries the uffd-wp bit: it is\ninstalled fresh by make_hwpoison_entry() (try_to_unmap_one() does not\npreserve uffd-wp on the hwpoison path) and hugetlb_change_protection()\nleaves hwpoison entries untouched. There was nothing to clear there, only\nthe corruption, so drop the clear entirely." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bc70fbf269fdff410b0b6d75c3770b9f59117b90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1b1311c0352873137768bac5a126e491271a747"},{"version":"bc70fbf269fdff410b0b6d75c3770b9f59117b90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69cb5825d9988c7944bc9f1dc08cb233655405a7"},{"version":"bc70fbf269fdff410b0b6d75c3770b9f59117b90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b0de7005b148738d79d6c45594d566489948a68"},{"version":"bc70fbf269fdff410b0b6d75c3770b9f59117b90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b9a07002c2f296aa6a9c591213933d3492e3089"},{"version":"bc70fbf269fdff410b0b6d75c3770b9f59117b90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fa11c60c9c06bafc19cf4d9efdaa36a38079e87"},{"version":"bc70fbf269fdff410b0b6d75c3770b9f59117b90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83abe2fd5b3aeb3123b5408a5a91709c5538fb23"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","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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