CVE-2026-63953

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/migrate_device: fix pgtable leak in migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page When migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page() jumps to unlock_abort due to a PMD check failure, the pgtable allocated earlier via pte_alloc_one() is never freed, causing a memory leak. Added free_abort label to release the pgtable in error path.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c6f81d58741349298f51ff697d988cb42881453

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24861d04f197bb651e9dfb211978271c15f75a98

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-19

Updated: 2026-07-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00189