CPU hang via duplicate device-page migration
Published Sep 25, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026
Denial of service in Linux 6.15 allows attackers to hang a CPU via concurrent migration of a device-private folio. The DRM pagemap CPU-fault path can migrate a folio while raw-PFN eviction still reaches the same source, leaving an uncharged folio on an LRU list. Triggering requires a device-private folio and overlapping fault and eviction activity; the observed consequence is a soft lockup and RCU stall.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Linux 6.15 allows attackers to hang a CPU via concurrent migration of a device-private folio. The DRM pagemap CPU-fault path can migrate a folio while raw-PFN eviction still reaches the same source, leaving an uncharged folio on an LRU list. Triggering requires a device-private folio and overlapping fault and eviction activity; the observed consequence is a soft lockup and RCU stall.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-98106
- Published
- Sep 25, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 25, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
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- Sep 25, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 25, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.15
- Affected versionversion=99624bdff8670795b678eafa6509aaad3a5c0175 <62451f540c46bf5c51143a1c8681b472608bd54d
- Affected versionversion=99624bdff8670795b678eafa6509aaad3a5c0175 <c4126f1db36e6b2e1c79b0e30a8a2de91c568f4c
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