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CVE-2026-43258
published 2026-05-06

CVE-2026-43258: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction Alpha systems can suffer sporadic…

PriorityP342high7.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.14%
3.6th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap corruption when memory compaction is enabled. Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation. The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or instruction translations from surviving migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: - MM context invalidation (ASN rollover), - immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI), - synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required. The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing global TLB semantics. Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering. This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems.

Affected

35 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6
linuxlinux>= a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < 03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f
linuxlinux>= a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77
linuxlinux>= a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a < dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 2.6.16.1 < 6.12.756.12.75
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.13 < 6.18.166.18.16
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.19 < 6.19.66.19.6
ubuntulinux
ubuntulinux-aws
ubuntulinux-aws-6.8
ubuntulinux-aws-fips
ubuntulinux-azure-fips
ubuntulinux-fips
ubuntulinux-gcp
ubuntulinux-gcp-6.8
ubuntulinux-gcp-fips
ubuntulinux-gke
ubuntulinux-gkeop
ubuntulinux-ibm
ubuntulinux-ibm-6.8
ubuntulinux-lowlatency
ubuntulinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8
ubuntulinux-nvidia

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vendor_ubuntu8.8HIGH
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