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CVE-2026-74602

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CVSS
5.5 Medium
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.17%
Risk score
3.5
Published
2026-08-22
Status
Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Initialise reader page order in rb_allocate_cpu_buffer() In rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(), bpage->order was omitted, leaving it as 0. This is an issue for a ring-buffer with subbufs bigger than PAGE_SIZE if when freed: free_buffer_page() relies on this value. Align the value with the actual allocation size (buffer::subbuf_order). A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ring-buffer component. The `rb_allocate_cpu_buffer()` function failed to initialize the `bpage->order` value, leaving it as zero. This uninitialized value is later used by `free_buffer_page()` when deallocating ring-buffers with sub-buffers larger than a page size. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause incorrect memory deallocation, leading to system instability or a denial of service (DoS).

Weaknesses

CWE-908

Coverage 1

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