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CVE-2026-64182

drivers/base/memory: fix memory block reference leak in poison accounting

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/base/memory: fix memory block reference leak in poison accounting memblk_nr_poison_inc() and memblk_nr_poison_sub() look up a memory block via find_memory_block_by_id(), which acquires a reference to the memory block device. Both helpers use the returned memory block without dropping that reference, leaking the device reference on each successful lookup. Drop the reference after updating nr_hwpoison.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 to < 686b4283f82cd630fafd7ca9b03dfc080b3ec8faaffected
  • 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 to < ce60d9452a0f2effa72fd20ea270c59ca691d455affected
  • 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 to < 24840b3139d7415144b81e4f9f4c44670d15bed9affected
  • 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 to < 8502e2c2d0633f99d94d22ae8dabc10caae1fc2aaffected
  • 5033091de814ab4b5623faed2755f3064e19e2d2 to < 03a2cc1756a0570f887d624cd6c535ea0cbd4951affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.2affected
  • 0 to < 6.2unaffected
  • 6.6.142 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.92 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.34 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.0.11 to ≤ 7.0.*unaffected
  • 7.1 to ≤ *unaffected

References