{"cve":"CVE-2026-74524","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-15T13:17:57.660","modified":"2026-08-17T06:19:49.290","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: mm: Fix out-of-bounds page-table walk during memory hot-remove\n\nremove_pud_mapping() and remove_p4d_mapping() obtain a child table base\nwith pud_offset(p4dp, 0) and p4d_offset(pgd, 0), then add the index for\naddr.\n\nRISC-V folds page-table levels at runtime. When a level is folded, its\noffset helper returns the parent entry itself, but the index can still be\nnonzero. Adding it walks past the parent table. Sv48 folds P4D, while Sv39\nfolds both P4D and PUD, so memory hot-remove can descend into unrelated\nmemory and pass an invalid page to __free_pages(). This can trigger:\n\n  kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1810!\n  VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0)\n  arch_remove_memory+0x1e/0x5c\n  try_remove_memory+0x15e/0x200\n  remove_memory+0x24/0x3c\n\nOnly add the index when the corresponding page-table level is enabled,\nmatching p4d_offset() and pud_offset().","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bb0ef8069ef158d245bac91ac178bb4f1a7ccd2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1da6d832eda02d908df11a30ba6a856b98a3dd76","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54e07a158f7aea2754849d3a5a4cba1ac338ae7e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0188cc133696627857d16054e43f9ebc7efc821"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:49:10.689564601+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-74524","score":0.00209,"percentile":0.11053,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}