PT-2026-61499
CVE-2026-64182
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Published
2026-07-19
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Updated
2026-10-13
Description by
CVSS 3.1
5.5
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
A memory block reference leak occurs in poison accounting. The functions
memblk nr poison inc() and memblk nr poison sub() utilize find memory block by id() to look up a memory block, which acquires a reference to the memory block device. Both helper functions fail to drop this reference after updating nr hwpoison, resulting in a leaked device reference upon every successful lookup.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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