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CVE-2026-23211

Medium
Low Medium High Critical
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: Feb 18, 2026
Last Modified: Mar 18, 2026

Vulnerability Description

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

mm, swap: restore swap_space attr aviod kernel panic

commit 8b47299a411a ("mm, swap: mark swap address space ro and add context
debug check") made the swap address space read-only. It may lead to
kernel panic if arch_prepare_to_swap returns a failure under heavy memory
pressure as follows,

el1_abort+0x40/0x64
el1h_64_sync_handler+0x48/0xcc
el1h_64_sync+0x84/0x88
errseq_set+0x4c/0xb8 (P)
__filemap_set_wb_err+0x20/0xd0
shrink_folio_list+0xc20/0x11cc
evict_folios+0x1520/0x1be4
try_to_shrink_lruvec+0x27c/0x3dc
shrink_one+0x9c/0x228
shrink_node+0xb3c/0xeac
do_try_to_free_pages+0x170/0x4f0
try_to_free_pages+0x334/0x534
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim+0x90/0x158
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x334/0x588
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x224/0x2fc
__folio_alloc_noprof+0x14/0x64
vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio+0x34/0x44
do_pte_missing+0xad4/0x1040
handle_mm_fault+0x4a4/0x790
do_page_fault+0x288/0x5f8
do_translation_fault+0x38/0x54
do_mem_abort+0x54/0xa8

Restore swap address space as not ro to avoid the panic.

CVSS Metrics

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Vector String:

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
L
Attack Complexity
L
Privileges Required
L
User Interaction
N
Scope
U
Confidentiality
N
Integrity
N
Availability
H

Known Affected Software

7 configuration(s) from 1 vendor(s)

linux_kernel
Version:
6.18
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux_kernel
Version:
6.18.3
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux_kernel
Version:
6.18.8
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux_kernel
Version:
6.18.7
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux_kernel
Version:
6.18.2
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux_kernel
Version:
6.19
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux_kernel
Version:
6.18.1
CPE:
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
This vulnerability affects 7 software configuration(s). Ensure you patch all affected systems.

Available Security Patches

1 patch available from vendors

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CVE-2026-23211

CVE-2026-23211

Severity
Unknown
Released
Mar 05, 2026
Security Update

Severity Details

5.5
out of 10.0
Medium

Weakness Type (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Key Information

Published Date
February 18, 2026