CVE-2026-93216

CVE-2026-93216

published September 24, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()

print_page_owner_memcg() reads page->memcg_data via READ_ONCE() at the

start to guard against tail pages and NULL data. However, it later

re-reads page->memcg_data locklessly in two places:

1: page_memcg_check(page)

2: PageMemcgKmem(page) (via folio_memcg_kmem(), which includes

VM_BUG_ON assertions for tail pages and MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS)

If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page or

slab page between these calls, the VM_BUG_ON assertions can trigger on

CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds, crashing the kernel.

Fix both TOCTOU issues by using the memcg_data snapshot throughout.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.7th percentile
Published
2026-09-24T20:17Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 SEP 03:27Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 24 SEP 15:10Z
    mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()
    cvelistv5