CVE-2026-93239 Affecting kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo package, versions <1:6.18.51-120.162.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNEL618TOOLSDEBUGINFO-20854987
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed24 Sept 2026

Introduced: 24 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-93239  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo to version 1:6.18.51-120.162.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2026-3187.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo package and not the kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64: mm: Fix the lockless page-table walk in show_pte()

show_pte() walks page tables locklessly and can run with interrupts enabled. A concurrent teardown can free a table page while it is being walked. It can also clear a parent entry after show_pte() checked it; the regular pXd_offset() helpers then reread the cleared entry and can derive a bogus lower-level pointer and fault again.

Use the lockless offset helpers with the saved parent entries, as gup_fast() does, and pass the saved PMD to pte_offset_map().

For task page tables, arm64 selects MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE. Disable local interrupts around the walk to hold off RCU-deferred table frees and block the tlb_remove_table_sync_one() IPI until the walk is finished.

Place the IRQ guard after the header print. This does not make the output a consistent snapshot, but prevents the task page-table walk from dereferencing a released table page or deriving a pointer from a different parent value.