CVE-2026-90043: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
zram: fix slot lock bit position on big-endian 64-bit
Published
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
zram: fix slot lock bit position on big-endian 64-bit
The slot lock is a bit operation on the whole __lock word, which flags and
ac_time alias as two u32s. On little-endian the lock bit lands in the
position ZRAM_ENTRY_LOCK reserves in flags, so the aliasing works out. On
64-bit big-endian it lands in ac_time instead: with
ZRAM_TRACK_ENTRY_ACTIME enabled, storing the access time from
mark_slot_accessed() or slot_free() wipes out the held lock bit, letting
another CPU take the same slot lock; an access time value with that bit
set makes the slot look locked forever.
Shift the lock bit into the flags half of the word on big-endian 64-bit.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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