CVE-2026-23375 — Expired Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
7.0HIGH
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: thp: deny THP for files on anonymous inodes
file_thp_enabled() incorrectly allows THP for files on anonymous inodes
(e.g. guest_memfd and secretmem). These files are created via
alloc_file_pseudo(), which does not call get_write_access() and leaves
inode->i_writecount at 0. Combined with S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) being
true, they appear as read-only regular files when
CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS is enabled, making them eligib…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux7fbb5e188248c50f737720825da1864ce42536d1 — 08de46a75f91a6661bc1ce0a93614f4bc313c581+4
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2026-23375: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: thp: deny THP for files on anonymous inodes file_thp_enabled() incorrectly all↗2026-03-25
GHSA▶
GHSA-9ghh-p583-m6m8: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: thp: deny THP for files on anonymous inodes
file_thp_enabled() incorrectly a↗2026-03-25