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CVE-2026-90043 (GCVE-0-2026-90043)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 10:33 – Updated: 2026-09-16 14:41

Title

zram: fix slot lock bit position on big-endian 64-bit

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zram: fix slot lock bit position on big-endian 64-bit The slot lock is a bit operation on the whole __lock word, which flags and ac_time alias as two u32s. On little-endian the lock bit lands in the position ZRAM_ENTRY_LOCK reserves in flags, so the aliasing works out. On 64-bit big-endian it lands in ac_time instead: with ZRAM_TRACK_ENTRY_ACTIME enabled, storing the access time from mark_slot_accessed() or slot_free() wipes out the held lock bit, letting another CPU take the same slot lock; an access time value with that bit set makes the slot look locked forever. Shift the lock bit into the flags half of the word on big-endian 64-bit.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/052b6b2d5fe97547b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8b5875741d416703…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2e8ff2f51dde73a26b94aed2df4827177bd25e6e , < 052b6b2d5fe97547bd2cdb73fa894f6cfea68b11 (git) Affected: 2e8ff2f51dde73a26b94aed2df4827177bd25e6e , < a8b5875741d416703e19ad8eeac6fce8a12bd6e4 (git)	guessed
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7.0 Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.5 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-90043

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-16 11:17 - Updated: 2026-09-16 15:18

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8b5875741d416703e19ad8eeac6fce8a12bd6e4

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-6W7G-56X2-F4JJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-16 12:30 – Updated: 2026-09-16 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

zram: fix slot lock bit position on big-endian 64-bit

The slot lock is a bit operation on the whole __lock word, which flags and ac_time alias as two u32s. On little-endian the lock bit lands in the position ZRAM_ENTRY_LOCK reserves in flags, so the aliasing works out. On 64-bit big-endian it lands in ac_time instead: with ZRAM_TRACK_ENTRY_ACTIME enabled, storing the access time from mark_slot_accessed() or slot_free() wipes out the held lock bit, letting another CPU take the same slot lock; an access time value with that bit set makes the slot look locked forever.

Shift the lock bit into the flags half of the word on big-endian 64-bit.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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