CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-74721

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the amdxdna_insert_pages() function in the accel/amxdna driver has two error paths that incorrectly call vma->vm_ops->close(vma) before returning an error code. This causes premature resource release, and later unmapping by the process leads to a double close and reference count underflow.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability may lead to system crash (kernel panic) or unpredictable behavior due to memory corruption, potentially enabling privilege escalation or DoS attacks.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that replaces hard errors with a deferred-fault approach, keeping the VMA alive and retrying page insertion through the HMM range-fault path.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/amxdna: Fix page-insertion errors in amdxdna_insert_pages() Two error paths in amdxdna_insert_pages() called vma->vm_ops->close(vma) before returning an error code to the caller. This is incorrect: amdxdna_gem_obj_mmap() registers an HMM interval notifier before calling amdxdna_insert_pages(), and on a hard error it jumps to hmm_unreg to undo that registration. Calling vm_ops->close() manually — which drops the shmem pages_pin_count and the GEM object reference that backs the VMA — before the mmap syscall has even returned causes those resources to be released while the VMA is still alive. The kernel VMA teardown will call vm_ops->close() a second time when the process later unmaps the range, producing a reference count underflow. Replace both hard-error returns with a deferred-fault approach that keeps the VMA alive and retries page insertion through the HMM range-fault path.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS