CVE-2026-43258

HIGH

alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (16)
Linux/Linux < 2.6.16
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7
Linux/Linux 2.6.16
Linux/Linux 6.12.75 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.16 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.6 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
... and 6 more
Published May 06, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026