CVE-2026-93216: mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 0/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.16% (FIRST EPSS).
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 46761406e14381dc35f498c247a87565b87ea2ef, 90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3df, a4c940ab3f794f221a338c9431ad1ce0d73a2bea; azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 Release Notes.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 46761406e14381dc35f498c247a87565b87ea2ef, 90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3df, a4c940ab3f794f221a338c9431ad1ce0d73a2bea; azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 Release Notes or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg() print_page_owner_memcg() reads page->memcg_data via READ_ONCE() at the start to guard against tail pages and NULL data. However, it later re-reads page->memcg_data locklessly in two places: 1: page_memcg_check(page) 2: PageMemcgKmem(page) (via folio_memcg_kmem(), which includes VM_BUG_ON assertions for tail pages and MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS) If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page or slab page between these calls, the VM_BUG_ON assertions can trigger on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds, crashing the kernel. Fix both TOCTOU issues by using the memcg_data snapshot throughout.
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.1% · 6th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
0
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 0 / 40 · —
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.1%
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Linux Linux
- 5.18affected
- fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 and later · before e7c1923c5f30a6953f0540e3171d882ec17b05d3affected · git
- fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 and later · before a4c940ab3f794f221a338c9431ad1ce0d73a2beaaffected · git
- fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 and later · before 46761406e14381dc35f498c247a87565b87ea2efaffected · git
- fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 and later · before 90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3dfaffected · git
- before 5.18not affected · semver
- 6.6.160 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
- 6.12.114 and later · up to and including 6.12.*not affected · semver
- 7.2.4 and later · up to and including 7.2.*not affected · semver
- 7.3 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | from 0 | — |
| Debian:13 | linux | before 6.12.115-2 | 6.12.115-2 |
| Debian:14 | linux | before 7.2.6-1 | 7.2.6-1 |
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Published before and after this one in the same product
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Remediation
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| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 46761406e14381dc35f498c247a87565b87ea2ef | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3df | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | a4c940ab3f794f221a338c9431ad1ce0d73a2bea | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | e7c1923c5f30a6953f0540e3171d882ec17b05d3 | Vendor (CNA) |
| azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 | Release Notes | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| debian:linux | 6.12.115-2 · Debian:13 | Package registry (OSV) |
| debian:linux | 7.2.6-1 · Debian:14 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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