CVE-2026-43258

alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction

CVE-2026-43258 is fixed in 45 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2026-1543, released April 7, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0018
7th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap corruption when memory compaction is enabled. Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation. The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or instruction translations from surviving migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: - MM context invalidation (ASN rollover), - immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI), - synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required. The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing global TLB semantics. Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering. This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
bpftool6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
bpftool6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
bpftool6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel-livepatch-6.12.77-99.140 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel-livepatch-6.18.16-18.222 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-libbpf · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-libbpf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.12-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
kernel6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-libbpf · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-libbpf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
kernel6.18-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.85-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43258 May 15, 2026
linux · Debian 14 6.19.6-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43258 May 15, 2026
perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
perf6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
perf6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
python3-perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
python3-perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543 Apr 7, 2026
python3-perf6.18 · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026
python3-perf6.18-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1702 May 11, 2026

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