Write-what-where Condition Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.17,6.18.53)[6.19,7.2.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20824348
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed24 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-93284  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-123  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.18.53, 7.2.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Write-what-where Condition in the drm_pagemap_migrate_unmap_pages process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive kernel or cross-process memory contents and perform arbitrary physical memory writes by exploiting improper DMA unmapping during memory migration errors. This can be achieved by creating a fault-mode virtual memory, migrating it to VRAM, and inducing errors that cause leaked IOMMU mappings to persist, allowing subsequent DMA operations to target recycled physical pages.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1