CVE-2026-46035mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.12%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 98% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP On UP kernels (!CONFIG_SMP), spin_trylock() is a no-op that unconditionally succeeds even when the lock is already held. As a result, alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() called from NMI context can re-enter rmqueue() and acquire the zone lock that the interrupted context is already holding, corrupting the freelists. With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK on UP, the following BUG is triggered with the slub_kunit test module: BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, kunit_try_catch/243 [...] Call Trace: <NMI> dump_stack_lvl+0x3f/0x60 do_raw_spin_trylock+0x41/0x50 _raw_spin_trylock+0x24/0x50 rmqueue.isra.0+0x2a9/0xa70 get_page_from_freelist+0xeb/0x450 alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof+0x111/0x1e0 allocate_slab+0x42a/0x500 ___slab_alloc+0xa7/0x4c0 kmalloc_nolock_noprof+0x164/0x310 [...] </NMI> Fix this by returning NULL early when invoked from NMI on a UP kernel.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.12% · top 98% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c – < 05b4ed8bef30bba4f559c8d835e2dd20c48cf8a4
- affected d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c – < a6d57efeaae3f3b3656514f600eac96be713d90e
- affected d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c – < 620b46ed6ae17c8438d889c8c0cfddab36a1476c
- affected 6.18
- unaffected < 6.18
- unaffected 6.18.27 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.0.4 – ≤ 7.0.*
- unaffected 7.1 – ≤ *
References
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-32416 (opens in a new tab)
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