In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/pagewalk: fix race between concurrent split and refault The splitting of a PUD entry in walk_pud_range() can race with a concurrent thread refaulting the PUD leaf entry causing it to try walking a PMD range that has disappeared. An example and reproduction of this is to try reading numa_maps of a process while VFIO-PCI is setting up DMA (specifically the vfio_pin_pages_remote call) on a large BAR for that process. This will trigger a kernel BUG: vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffa23980000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... RIP: 0010:walk_pgd_range+0x3b5/0x7a0 Code: 8d 43 ff 48 89 44 24 28 4d 89 ce 4d 8d a7 00 00 20 00 48 8b 4c 24 28 49 81 e4 00 00 e0 ff 49 8d 44 24 ff 48 39 c8 4c 0f 43 e3 <49> f7 06 9f ff ff ff 75 3b 48 8b 44 24 20 48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74 RSP: 0018:ffffac23e1ecf808 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: 00007f44c01fffff RBX: 00007f4500000000 RCX: 00007f44ffffffff RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000ffffffffff000 RDI: ffffffff93378fe0 RBP: ffffac23e1ecf918 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffffa23980000000 R10: 0000000000000020 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 00007f44c0200000 R13: 00007f44c0000000 R14: ffffa23980000000 R15: 00007f44c0000000 FS: 00007fe884739580(0000) GS:ffff9b7d7a9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffa23980000000 CR3: 000000c0650e2005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> __walk_page_range+0x195/0x1b0 walk_page_vma+0x62/0xc0 show_numa_map+0x12b/0x3b0 seq_read_iter+0x297/0x440 seq_read+0x11d/0x140 vfs_read+0xc2/0x340 ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x68/0x130 ? get_page_from_freelist+0x5c2/0x17e0 ? mas_store_prealloc+0x17e/0x360 ? vma_set_page_prot+0x4c/0xa0 ? __alloc_pages_noprof+0x14e/0x2d0 ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x8d/0x140 ? __lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x76/0xb0 ? __folio_mod_stat+0x26/0x80 ? do_anonymous_page+0x705/0x900 ? __handle_mm_fault+0xa8d/0x1000 ? __count_memcg_events+0x53/0xf0 ? handle_mm_fault+0xa5/0x360 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x342/0x640 ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.constprop.0+0x16/0xa0 ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x24/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fe88464f47e Code: c0 e9 b6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d be 07 0b 00 e8 69 01 02 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28 RSP: 002b:00007ffe6cd9a9b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007fe88464f47e RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007fe884543000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007fe884543000 R08: 00007fe884542010 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000 </TASK> Fix this by validating the PUD entry in walk_pmd_range() using a stable snapshot (pudp_get()). If the PUD is not present or is a leaf, retry the walk via ACTION_AGAIN instead of descending further. This mirrors the retry logic in walk_pte_range(), which lets walk_pmd_range() retry if the PTE is not being got by pte_offset_map_lock().

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1816 advisory.

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

    bonding: fix use-after-free due to enslave fail after slave array update (CVE-2026-23171)

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

    mm/pagewalk: fix race between concurrent split and refault (CVE-2026-31456)

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

    mm/userfaultfd: fix hugetlb fault mutex hash calculation (CVE-2026-31575)

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

    fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache (CVE-2026-31694)

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

    net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd() (CVE-2026-31700)

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

    smb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path (CVE-2026-31708)

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

    smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl (CVE-2026-31709)

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

    fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file record check (CVE-2026-31716)

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

    Buffer overflow in drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c (CVE-2026-31786)

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

    xen/privcmd: fix double free via VMA splitting (CVE-2026-31787)

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

    net: af_key: zero aligned sockaddr tail in PF_KEY exports (CVE-2026-43088)

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

    x86: shadow stacks: proper error handling for mmap lock (CVE-2026-43109)

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

    smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits (CVE-2026-43350)

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

    btrfs: fix btrfs_ioctl_space_info() slot_count TOCTOU which can lead to info-leak (CVE-2026-46159)

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

    btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info_sub_group() error path (CVE-2026-46164)

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

    vsock/virtio: fix empty payload in tap skb for non-linear buffers (CVE-2026-46207)

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

    drm/gem: Fix inconsistent plane dimension calculation in drm_gem_fb_init_with_funcs() (CVE-2026-46209)

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

    vsock/virtio: fix accept queue count leak on transport mismatch (CVE-2026-46214)

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

    sctp: revalidate list cursor after sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() in SCTP_SENDALL (CVE-2026-46227)

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

    vsock: fix buffer size clamping order (CVE-2026-46234)

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

    media: rc: xbox_remote: heed DMA restrictions (CVE-2026-46236)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1753 advisory.

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

    mm/pagewalk: fix race between concurrent split and refault (CVE-2026-31456)

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

    fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache (CVE-2026-31694)

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

    net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd() (CVE-2026-31700)

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

    smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl (CVE-2026-31709)

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

    fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file record check (CVE-2026-31716)

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

    x86: shadow stacks: proper error handling for mmap lock (CVE-2026-43109)

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

    lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() (CVE-2026-43492)

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

    crypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests (CVE-2026-43493)

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

    net/rds: reset op_nents when zerocopy page pin fails (CVE-2026-43494)

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

    net/sched: sch_red: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked (CVE-2026-43496)

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

    rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter() (CVE-2026-43499)

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

    ipv6: rpl: reserve mac_len headroom when recompressed SRH grows (CVE-2026-43501)

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

    net/rds: handle zerocopy send cleanup before the message is queued (CVE-2026-43502)

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

    bpf: Fix use-after-free in arena_vm_close on fork (CVE-2026-45837)

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

    KVM: nSVM: Sync interrupt shadow to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN of L2 (CVE-2026-45987)

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

    rxrpc: Fix re-decryption of RESPONSE packets (CVE-2026-45988)

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

    of: unittest: fix use-after-free in testdrv_probe() (CVE-2026-45989)

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

    udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping (CVE-2026-45991)

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

    scsi: sd: fix missing put_disk() when device_add(&disk_dev) fails (CVE-2026-45997)

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

    erofs: fix unsigned underflow in z_erofs_lz4_handle_overlap() (CVE-2026-45999)

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

    rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets (CVE-2026-46000)

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

    xfs: fix a resource leak in xfs_alloc_buftarg() (CVE-2026-46005)

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

    tcp: call sk_data_ready() after listener migration (CVE-2026-46015)

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

    thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues (CVE-2026-46021)

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

    dm mirror: fix integer overflow in create_dirty_log() (CVE-2026-46023)

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

    libceph: Prevent potential null-ptr-deref in ceph_handle_auth_reply() (CVE-2026-46024)

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

    crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation (CVE-2026-46033)

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

    ipv4: icmp: validate reply type before using icmp_pointers (CVE-2026-46037)

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

    inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotify_add_inode_mark_locked() fails (CVE-2026-46040)

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

    ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() (CVE-2026-46046)

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

    md/raid10: fix deadlock with check operation and nowait requests (CVE-2026-46050)

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

    md/raid5: fix soft lockup in retry_aligned_read() (CVE-2026-46051)

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

    ceph: only d_add() negative dentries when they are unhashed (CVE-2026-46052)

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

    net: rds: fix MR cleanup on copy error (CVE-2026-46053)

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

    jbd2: fix deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() (CVE-2026-46061)

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

    ntfs3: fix integer overflow in run_unpack() volume boundary check (CVE-2026-46062)

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

    fbdev: defio: Disconnect deferred I/O from the lifetime of struct fb_info (CVE-2026-46065)

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

    md/raid5: validate payload size before accessing journal metadata (CVE-2026-46070)

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

    ntfs3: add buffer boundary checks to run_unpack() (CVE-2026-46072)

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

    KVM: nSVM: Raise #UD if unhandled VMMCALL isn't intercepted by L1 (CVE-2026-46076)

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

    erofs: fix the out-of-bounds nameoff handling for trailing dirents (CVE-2026-46078)

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

    rbd: fix null-ptr-deref when device_add_disk() fails (CVE-2026-46079)

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

    KVM: SVM: Inject #UD for INVLPGA if EFER.SVME=0 (CVE-2026-46082)

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

    spi: fix resource leaks on device setup failure

    Make sure to call controller cleanup() if spi_setup() fails whileregistering a device to avoid leaking any     resources allocated bysetup(). (CVE-2026-46083)

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

    RDMA/mana_ib: Disable RX steering on RSS QP destroy (CVE-2026-46084)

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

    net: bridge: use a stable FDB dst snapshot in RCU readers (CVE-2026-46086)

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

    zram: do not forget to endio for partial discard requests (CVE-2026-46089)

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

    ext4: fix bounds check in check_xattrs() to prevent out-of-bounds access (CVE-2026-46094)

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

    net: ipv6: fix NOREF dst use in seg6 and rpl lwtunnels (CVE-2026-46099)

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

    netfilter: reject zero shift in nft_bitwise (CVE-2026-46101)

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

    net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() (CVE-2026-46102)

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

    eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events (CVE-2026-46106)

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

    dm-thin: fix metadata refcount underflow (CVE-2026-46107)

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

    ipmi:si: Return state to normal if message allocation fails (CVE-2026-46108)

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

    KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected GFN (CVE-2026-46113)

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

    block: add pgmap check to biovec_phys_mergeable (CVE-2026-46115)

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

    xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete (CVE-2026-46116)

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

    libceph: Fix slab-out-of-bounds access in auth message processing (CVE-2026-46119)

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

    ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink(). (CVE-2026-46120)

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

    mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: protect memcg_path kfree() with damon_sysfs_lock (CVE-2026-46121)

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

    isofs: validate block number from NFS file handle in isofs_export_iget (CVE-2026-46124)

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

    ipmi: Check event message buffer response for bad data (CVE-2026-46128)

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

    btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info() error path (CVE-2026-46129)

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

    KVM: x86: check for nEPT/nNPT in slow flush hypercalls (CVE-2026-46131)

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

    net: rtnetlink: zero ifla_vf_broadcast to avoid stack infoleak in rtnl_fill_vfinfo (CVE-2026-46132)

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

    smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer (CVE-2026-46139)

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

    RDMA/mana: Fix error unwind in mana_ib_create_qp_rss() (CVE-2026-46144)

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

    RDMA/mana: Validate rx_hash_key_len (CVE-2026-46145)

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

    scsi: target: configfs: Bound snprintf() return in tg_pt_gp_members_show() (CVE-2026-46149)

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

    fanotify: fix false positive on permission events (CVE-2026-46150)

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

    smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in smb2_compound_op() (CVE-2026-46155)

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

    md/raid10: fix divide-by-zero in setup_geo() with zero far_copies (CVE-2026-46161)

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

    ice: fix double free in ice_sf_eth_activate() error path (CVE-2026-46162)

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

    openvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports (CVE-2026-46165)

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

    mptcp: fix scheduling with atomic in timestamp sockopt (CVE-2026-46168)

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

    ipv6: xfrm6: release dst on error in xfrm6_rcv_encap() (CVE-2026-46172)

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

    exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task (CVE-2026-46173)

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

    x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent improper isolation of shared resources in Zen2's op cache (CVE-2026-46174)

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

    RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init() (CVE-2026-46176)

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

    ipmi: Add limits to event and receive message requests (CVE-2026-46177)

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

    smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in symlink_data() (CVE-2026-46185)

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

    mtd: spi-nor: debugfs: fix out-of-bounds read in spi_nor_params_show() (CVE-2026-46190)

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

    xfrm: ah: account for ESN high bits in async callbacks (CVE-2026-46193)

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

    smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers (CVE-2026-46195)

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

    tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func() (CVE-2026-46196)

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

    tpm: Use kfree_sensitive() to free auth session in tpm_dev_release() (CVE-2026-46283)

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

    lib/scatterlist: fix length calculations in extract_kvec_to_sg (CVE-2026-46289)

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

    pmdomain: core: Fix detach procedure for virtual devices in genpd (CVE-2026-46292)

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

    dm: fix a buffer overflow in ioctl processing (CVE-2026-46294)

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

    isofs: validate Rock Ridge CE continuation extent against volume size (CVE-2026-46303)

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

    flow_dissector: do not dissect PPPoE PFC frames (CVE-2026-46306)

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

    ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic (CVE-2026-46333)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - mm/pagewalk: fix race between concurrent split and refault The splitting of a PUD entry in     walk_pud_range() can race with a concurrent thread refaulting the PUD leaf entry causing it to try walking     a PMD range that has disappeared. An example and reproduction of this is to try reading numa_maps of a     process while VFIO-PCI is setting up DMA (specifically the vfio_pin_pages_remote call) on a large BAR for     that process. This will trigger a kernel BUG: vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) BUG:
    unable to handle page fault for address: ffffa23980000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI ...
    RIP: 0010:walk_pgd_range+0x3b5/0x7a0 Code: 8d 43 ff 48 89 44 24 28 4d 89 ce 4d 8d a7 00 00 20 00 48 8b 4c     24 28 49 81 e4 00 00 e0 ff 49 8d 44 24 ff 48 39 c8 4c 0f 43 e3 <49> f7 06 9f ff ff ff 75 3b 48 8b 44 24 20     48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74 RSP: 0018:ffffac23e1ecf808 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: 00007f44c01fffff RBX:
    00007f4500000000 RCX: 00007f44ffffffff RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000ffffffffff000 RDI: ffffffff93378fe0     RBP: ffffac23e1ecf918 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffffa23980000000 R10: 0000000000000020 R11:
    0000000000000004 R12: 00007f44c0200000 R13: 00007f44c0000000 R14: ffffa23980000000 R15: 00007f44c0000000     FS: 00007fe884739580(0000) GS:ffff9b7d7a9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000     CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffa23980000000 CR3: 000000c0650e2005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 PKRU: 55555554     Call Trace: <TASK> __walk_page_range+0x195/0x1b0 walk_page_vma+0x62/0xc0 show_numa_map+0x12b/0x3b0     seq_read_iter+0x297/0x440 seq_read+0x11d/0x140 vfs_read+0xc2/0x340 ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0     do_syscall_64+0x68/0x130 ? get_page_from_freelist+0x5c2/0x17e0 ? mas_store_prealloc+0x17e/0x360 ?     vma_set_page_prot+0x4c/0xa0 ? __alloc_pages_noprof+0x14e/0x2d0 ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x8d/0x140 ?
    __lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x76/0xb0 ? __folio_mod_stat+0x26/0x80 ? do_anonymous_page+0x705/0x900 ?
    __handle_mm_fault+0xa8d/0x1000 ? __count_memcg_events+0x53/0xf0 ? handle_mm_fault+0xa5/0x360 ?     do_user_addr_fault+0x342/0x640 ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.constprop.0+0x16/0xa0 ?     irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x24/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fe88464f47e     Code: c0 e9 b6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d be 07 0b 00 e8 69 01 02 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 64 8b 04 25 18     00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28 RSP:
    002b:00007ffe6cd9a9b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:
    0000000000020000 RCX: 00007fe88464f47e RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007fe884543000 RDI: 0000000000000003     RBP: 00007fe884543000 R08: 00007fe884542010 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11:
    0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000     </TASK> Fix this by validating the PUD entry in walk_pmd_range() using a stable snapshot (pudp_get()). If     the PUD is not present or is a leaf, retry the walk via ACTION_AGAIN instead of descending further. This     mirrors the retry logic in walk_pte_range(), which lets walk_pmd_range() retry if the PTE is not being got     by pte_offset_map_lock(). (CVE-2026-31456)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
319865	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.12, kernel6.12, kernel6.12-devel (ALAS2023-2026-1816)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
319659	SUSE SLES16 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:21845-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
318240	SUSE SLES16 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:21860-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
318102	openSUSE 16 Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2026:20826-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
316948	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.18, kernel6.18, kernel6.18-devel (ALAS2023-2026-1746)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
316942	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.12, kernel6.12, kernel6.12-devel (ALAS2023-2026-1753)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
309691	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-31456	Nessus	Misc.	medium

Detections

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CVE-2026-31456

medium

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

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high

high

medium