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HIGHCVE-2026-43258Published Modified CNA Linux

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.

Metrics

CVSS v3.1
7.8
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
0
Affected Products
2

Fix available

003e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f6.12.756.18.166.19.67.0bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7
Affected packages
  • Linux / Linux
    < d4ca6ca2c6f5a1d19d9014c5b36d96637846b5d6 (from a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a) · < 03e42b5f7ad4c2c3db8bd384bab7990d5d53c90f (from a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a) · < bab8d762a8dbb816b10011e13b87d1bca91e5f77 (from a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a) · < dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7 (from a48d07afdf18212de22b959715b16793c5a6e57a)
  • Linux / Linux
    2.6.16
    Fixed in 0, 6.12.75, 6.18.16, 6.19.6, 7.0
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H