CVE-2026-74721
mediumCVSS v3 Base Score
7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 98% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: August 22, 2026 (15 days ago)
Last Modified: August 22, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT
Vulnerability Report
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
accel/amxdna: Fix page-insertion errors in amdxdna_insert_pages()
Two error paths in amdxdna_insert_pages() called vma->vm_ops->close(vma)
before returning an error code to the caller. This is incorrect:
amdxdna_gem_obj_mmap() registers an HMM interval notifier before calling
amdxdna_insert_pages(), and on a hard error it jumps to hmm_unreg to undo
that registration. Calling vm_ops->close() manually — which drops the
shmem pages_pin_count and the GEM object reference that backs the VMA —
before the mmap syscall has even returned causes those resources to be
released while the VMA is still alive. The kernel VMA teardown will call
vm_ops->close() a second time when the process later unmaps the range,
producing a reference count underflow.
Replace both hard-error returns with a deferred-fault approach that keeps
the VMA alive and retries page insertion through the HMM range-fault path.
CWE
CWE-911Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9