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CVE-2026-98506
mm/hugetlb: do not dissolve gigantic pages without runtime support
Published 2026-10-18 (today) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem mm. Debian urgency: not yet assigned.
What to do, per Debian release
Debian's own status for CVE-2026-98506 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source
| Release | Status | Version | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 12bookworm | vulnerable | 6.1.190-1 | No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series bookworm tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for bookworm have historically landed a median of 23 days after publication. |
| Debian 13trixie | fixed | 6.12.113-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.12.113-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian 14forky | fixed | 7.2.9-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.2.9-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian unstablesid | fixed | 7.2.9-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.2.9-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
The vulnerability
What the bug is
dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio() doesn't check hstate_is_gigantic_no_runtime(h) though remove_hugetlb_folio()/ update_and_free_hugetlb_folio() silently bail for such folios, so it frees a still-listed folio and, on vmemmap restore failure, the add_hugetlb_folio() rollback corrupts the free list.
Where it lives
The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.
mm/hugetlb.c
- What this is
- HUGETLB SUBSYSTEMMAINTAINERS section matched on mm/hugetlb.c · linux-mm@kvack.org · Maintained
Check it on the machine
grep -w CONFIG_HUGETLBFS /boot/config-$(uname -r)Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.
Show whether Debian builds this, per release
Debian builds this, but not on every flavour. At least one release below builds the code on some of its kernel flavours and not on others, so the answer depends on the architecture and flavour installed.
- bookwormYnot built on armhf/armmp, armhf/rt/armmp
- trixieYnot built on armel/rpi, armhf/armmp, armhf/rt/armmp
- forky, sidYnot built on armhf/armmp
- Y
- built in where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it
- Build switch
- CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages
Signals
- Published
- 2026-10-18 (today)source
- CVSS
- no vector published, unrated
- Attack vector
- not published
- EPSS
- not scored
- CISA KEV
- not listedthe KEV catalogue
- Debian urgency
- not yet assignedsource
- Subsystem
- mm
Upstream fixes
The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source
| Introduced | Fixed in | Commit |
|---|---|---|
| 5.13 | 6.12.112 | ddc1055b5575 |
| 5.13 | 6.18.55 | ccf96a4b8626 |
| 5.13 | 7.2.9 | 443628f755b3 |
| 5.13 | 7.3 | a363c62a653c |
Why the CNA scored it this way
The kernel CNA published no CVSS vector and no reasoning for CVE-2026-98506, which is why it is shown as unrated rather than given an invented score. 6,405 of the 20,413 CVEs here carry reasoning; this is not one of them.