CVE-2026-63953

Summary

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

mm/migrate_device: fix pgtable leak in migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page

When migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page() jumps to unlock_abort due to a PMD check failure, the pgtable allocated earlier via pte_alloc_one() is never freed, causing a memory leak.

Added free_abort label to release the pgtable in error path.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxa30b48bf1b244f11bf9b6d20cdccfe0c2264130c < 24861d04f197bb651e9dfb211978271c15f75a98affected
LinuxLinuxa30b48bf1b244f11bf9b6d20cdccfe0c2264130c < 2c6f81d58741349298f51ff697d988cb42881453affected
LinuxLinux6.19affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.19unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.12 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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