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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare() Several subsystems (slub, shmem, ttm, etc.) use page->private but don't clear it before freeing pages. When these pages are later allocated as high-order pages and split via split_page(), tail pages retain stale page->private values. This causes a use-after-free in the swap subsystem. The swap code uses page->private to track swap count continuations, assuming freshly allocated pages have page->private == 0. When stale values are present, swap_count_continued() incorrectly assumes the continuation list is valid and iterates over uninitialized page->lru containing LIST_POISON values, causing a crash: KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000100-0xdead000000000107] RIP: 0010:__do_sys_swapoff+0x1151/0x1860 Fix this by clearing page->private in free_pages_prepare(), ensuring all freed pages have clean state regardless of previous use.
Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026050857-CVE-2026-43303-dc12@gregkh/T
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2026:21557 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21557
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2026:21556 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21556
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2026:26462 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26462
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2026:26515 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26515
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2026:27708 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27708
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2026:27735 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27735
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2026:33215 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33215