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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93066" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:51.612Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:05:02.188Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-93066" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93066.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93066" title: "x86/mm/pat: Take cpa_lock around large-page collapse" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/mm/pat: Take cpa_lock around large-page collapse\n\nLoading and unloading modules concurrently on several CPUs on a KASAN\nbuild, with a short delay injected at the CPA page-table lookup to\nwiden the window, faults within minutes:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __change_page_attr+0x7cc/0x7e0\n Write of size 8 at addr ffff888181139718 by task modprobe\n ...\n The buggy address belongs to the physical page:\n pfn:0x181139 ... page_type: f2(table)\n\ncpa_collapse_large_pages() rebuilds a leaf PMD from its 4K PTEs and\nfrees the old PTE-table pages, while __change_page_attr() fetches a\nPTE pointer from a lockless lookup_address_in_pgd_attr() and writes\nit with set_pte_atomic() only later. When module text is served from\na shared large ROX mapping the two run on the same PMD:\n\n CPU A (module load) CPU B (module finalize)\n ------------------- -----------------------\n execmem_make_temp_rw\n set_memory_nx\n __change_page_attr\n split 2M -\u003e 4K table P\n kpte = &P[i] (lockless)\n execmem_restore_rox\n set_memory_rox (CPA_COLLAPSE)\n cpa_collapse_large_pages\n rebuild leaf PMD\n flush_tlb_all\n pagetable_free(P)\n set_pte_atomic(kpte, ...)\n -\u003e writes into freed P\n\nP is a page-table page (page_type: table), reused at once, so the\nwrite corrupts whatever got the page next: a bad-pte or bad-page\nsplat, or a fatal fault once P has been turned into read-only text.\n\nThe flush_tlb_all() before the free does not close this: its IPI only\nserializes against page-table walkers that run with interrupts off\n(e.g. GUP-fast); the walk in __change_page_attr() runs with interrupts\non, so nothing stops it from holding a stale pointer into P.\n\nSerialize the collapse - the PMD rebuild, TLB flush and PTE-table\nfree - under cpa_lock, the same lock __change_page_attr() now takes\nunconditionally since commit (\"x86/mm/pat: stop gating cpa_lock on\ndebug_pagealloc_enabled()\"), so a concurrent walker can no longer\nhold a pointer into a table the collapse is about to free." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"41d88484c71cd4f659348da41b7b5b3dbd3be1f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"591b6fac9df3f43522e8ff6eed8662f8b6f1a124"},{"version":"41d88484c71cd4f659348da41b7b5b3dbd3be1f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb97d1d6c20692e15247fa5c8b894b2325e38aee"},{"version":"41d88484c71cd4f659348da41b7b5b3dbd3be1f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1aac65f3e651334259ecb2a5f5ddb81c01f02599"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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