MEDIUMVulnerability

CVE-2026-64297

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: decompress: check return value of module_extend_max_pages() module_extend_max_pages() calls kvrealloc() internally and returns -ENOMEM on allocation failure. The return value is never checked. If the initial allocation fails, info->pages remains NULL and info->max_pages remains 0. Subsequent calls to module_get_next_page() will attempt to dynamically grow the array by calling module_extend_max_pages(info, 0) since info->used_pages is 0. This results in kvrealloc(NULL, 0) returning ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which is treated as a success, leading to a dereference of ZERO_SIZE_PTR and a kernel oops. Fix: add the missing error check after module_extend_max_pages() and return immediately on failure. This matches the pattern used by every other kvrealloc() caller in the module loading path. [Sami: Corrected the analysis in the commit message.]

Properties

severity
MEDIUM
score
5.5
cve_id
CVE-2026-64297
vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
published_at
2026-07-25T10:17:10.530
last_modified
2026-08-12T14:54:29.690

Related Entities (3)

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]NULL Pointer Dereference

DESCRIBED_BY (1)

[Source]NVD

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