Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-53189

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: update file PMD counter before folio_put() __split_huge_pmd_locked() updates the file/shmem RSS counter after dropping the PMD mapping's folio reference…

EPSS: 0.002 (8.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions fadae2953072e9005c5f1d64e1049edb043494dc, 4.19, 0

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