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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0016 5.3 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux b1ae6dc41eaaa98bb75671e0f3665bfda248c3e7 – — Linux 5.17 – 6.1.178
TIMELINE Jul 19 Reserved by Linux Jul 25 Published (CNA: Linux) Aug 17 ENRICHED — CVE-2026-64297 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD.
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.]
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| July 19, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| July 25, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 17, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2026-64297 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD. |
Authoritative record: CVE-2026-64297 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
Weaknesses: CWE-476
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