Kernel crash and page use-after-free via mmap race
Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel RDMA/rxe component allows local users to crash the kernel or access reallocated pages. rxe_mmap drops pending_lock before taking another reference, so a concurrent destroy ioctl can free the mapping object while remap_vmalloc_range walks its page tables. Exploitation requires configured Soft-RoCE and access to a uverbs device; the crash is repeatable, while retaining a stale mapping to a reused page requires a very short race window.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the Linux kernel RDMA/rxe component allows local users to crash the kernel or access reallocated pages. rxe_mmap drops pending_lock before taking another reference, so a concurrent destroy ioctl can free the mapping object while remap_vmalloc_range walks its page tables. Exploitation requires configured Soft-RoCE and access to a uverbs device; the crash is repeatable, while retaining a stale mapping to a reused page requires a very short race window.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-64582
- Published
- Aug 5, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-825, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Aug 5, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.8
- Affected versionversion=8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 <3525987a392536f31a484833af258971af63b24c
- Affected versionversion=8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 <35744ab3d03c5fca8c1752f53fc8fc674e14c561
- Affected versionversion=8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 <665fb7d22a700c66a78db0cf88c6e6a649aba9d0
- Affected versionversion=8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 <e038d42cc09ca1da9d3568ce8ae062b2bfb3bc0e
- Affected versionversion=8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 <e59a6aa89e0fcd1d0707832eb4654fd9ae7d31e6
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