7.8

CVE-2026-43258

alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.16.1 < 6.12.75
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.16
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 6.19.6
LinuxLinux Kernel Version2.6.16 Update-
LinuxLinux Kernel Version2.6.16 Updaterc2
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version2.6.16 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version2.6.16 Updaterc5
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.14% 0.035
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7
Patch