{"id":"CVE-2026-89961","aliases":[],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2026-89961","summary":"powerpc/mm: fix wrong addr_pfn tracking in compound vmemmap population","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/mm: fix wrong addr_pfn tracking in compound vmemmap population\n\nvmemmap_populate_compound_pages() uses addr_pfn to determine the PFN\noffset within a compound page and to decide whether the current vmemmap\nslot should be populated as a head page mapping or should reuse a tail\npage mapping.\n\nHowever, addr_pfn is advanced manually in parallel with addr.  The loop\nitself progresses in vmemmap address space, so each PAGE_SIZE step in addr\ncovers PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page) struct page slots.  Since addr_pfn\nis compared against nr_pages in data-PFN units, it should advance by the\nsame number of PFNs.  The existing manual increments do not match that and\ntherefore do not reliably track the PFN corresponding to the current addr.\n\nAs a result, pfn_offset can be computed from the wrong PFN and the code\ncan make the head/tail decision for the wrong compound-page position.\n\nFix this by deriving addr_pfn directly from the current vmemmap address\ninstead of carrying it as loop state.","published":"2026-09-16T10:32:43.921Z","modified":"2026-09-18T03:48:34.394521256Z","cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":null,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Linux","name":"Kernel","fixedVersion":"6.6.157"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7968852a7ca3ce81477ec5b4494a28d612f35a97"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89a4ae32764172468dea303eb6ae90fe6c859712"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c914b7a0bd18834505c65f22225ce22c152b2d9"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b96be860673f9fbbf12cdadb0b25fc4d6d4d207f"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e163c7184acf36ac20a248498f4a16016057ca01"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89961.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89961"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-09-18T03:48:34.394521256Z"}}