CVE-2026-46280CWE-416

CVE-2026-46280

High · published June 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free

Patch series "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups".

Two bugfixes a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests. These were mostly

reported by Zenghui Yu with special thanks to Lorenzo for analysing and

pointing out the problems.

This patch (of 3):

When dmirror_fops_release() is called it frees the dmirror struct but

doesn't migrate device private pages back to system memory first. This

leaves those pages with a dangling zone_device_data pointer to the freed

dmirror.

If a subsequent fault occurs on those pages (eg. during coredump) the

dmirror_devmem_fault() callback dereferences the stale pointer causing a

kernel panic. This was reported [1] when running mm/ksft_hmm.sh on arm64,

where a test failure triggered SIGABRT and the resulting coredump walked

the VMAs faulting in the stale device private pages.

Fix this by calling dmirror_device_evict_chunk() for each devmem chunk in

dmirror_fops_release() to migrate all device private pages back to system

memory before freeing the dmirror struct. The function is moved earlier

in the file to avoid a forward declaration.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00171 · 6.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-06-08T21:16Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.8, < 6.1.1766.1.176
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1406.6.140
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.866.12.86
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.276.18.27
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 7.0.47.0.4
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 JUN 15:41Z
    lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free
    cvelistv5