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GHSA-2Q3F-M66C-MQFJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-17 06:33

Details

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

mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free()

free_pages_prepare() can fail but compaction_free() does not handle the failure case. Failed pages should not be added back to cc->freepages for future use, since they can be either PageHWPoison or free_page_is_bad() and might cause data corruption.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-72027 (GCVE-0-2026-72027)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:39

Title

mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free() free_pages_prepare() can fail but compaction_free() does not handle the failure case. Failed pages should not be added back to cc->freepages for future use, since they can be either PageHWPoison or free_page_is_bad() and might cause data corruption.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de8577db09039d495…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/018d7ad26cb8bdfe9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23afc3786acf359c1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7da7d599b8a83271c…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 , < de8577db09039d4950239b01446ab5ead9028ab4 (git) Affected: 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 , < 018d7ad26cb8bdfe9842f2ca68a42b0bfdcc82fe (git) Affected: 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 , < 23afc3786acf359c135093893fb43a436768c832 (git) Affected: 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 , < 7da7d599b8a83271c464adfd5ef160202b470570 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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