CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64167

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the KHO (Kexec HandOver) mechanism. The kho_fill_kimage() function incorrectly added KHO metadata to crash kernel images, causing a page fault during memory initialization when the crash kernel tried to access KHO scratch areas outside its reserved region.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may prevent the crash kernel from booting during a system failure, leading to loss of crash dump collection capability and extended downtime.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that adds a guard to skip KHO for KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH images in kho_fill_kimage(). Update to a kernel version containing this fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kho: skip KHO for crash kernel kho_fill_kimage() unconditionally populates the kimage with KHO metadata for every kexec image type. When the image is a crash kernel, this can be problematic as the crash kernel can run in a small reserved region and the KHO scratch areas can sit outside it. The crash kernel then faults during kho_memory_init() when it tries phys_to_virt() on the KHO FDT address: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxxxx ... fdt_offset_ptr+... fdt_check_node_offset_+... fdt_first_property_offset+... fdt_get_property_namelen_+... fdt_getprop+... kho_memory_init+... mm_core_init+... start_kernel+... kho_locate_mem_hole() already skips KHO logic for KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH images, but kho_fill_kimage() was missing the same guard. As kho_fill_kimage() is the single point that populates image->kho.fdt and image->kho.scratch, fixing it here is sufficient for both arm64 and x86 as the FDT and boot_params path are bailing out when these fields are unset.

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