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CVE-2026-64297

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: decompress: check return value of module_extend_max_pages() module_extend_max_pages() calls kvrealloc() internally and returns -ENOMEM on allocation failure. The return value is never checked. If the initial allocation fails, info->pages remains NULL and info->max_pages remains 0. Subsequent calls to module_get_next_page() will attempt to dynamically grow the array by calling module_extend_max_pages(info, 0) since info->used_pages is 0. This results in kvrealloc(NULL, 0) returning ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which is treated as a success, leading to a dereference of ZERO_SIZE_PTR and a kernel oops. Fix: add the missing error check after module_extend_max_pages() and return immediately on failure. This matches the pattern used by every other kvrealloc() caller in the module loading path. [Sami: Corrected the analysis in the commit message.]

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64297
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 15:36 UTC
Published
2026-07-25 08:49 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-25 08:49 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux b1ae6dc41eaaa98bb75671e0f3665bfda248c3e7 < e7f174715f9f0cbcb9e87b52e4fc4ef149baac98, b1ae6dc41eaaa98bb75671e0f3665bfda248c3e7 < afcc0515bbdd28d509a2b5870faaa89b137f5d53, b1ae6dc41eaaa98bb75671e0f3665bfda248c3e7 < 168072baf9ad516d5a06046514c7fea4c0671990, b1ae6dc41eaaa98bb75671e0f3665bfda248c3e7 < a82e170637e050a803b4f37542371ef216bf66d2 …
Linux Linux 5.17, 0 < 5.17, 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.*, 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* …
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