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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/util: don\u0027t read __page_2 for order-1 folios in snapshot_page()\n\nsnapshot_page() currently reads __page_2 after checking nr_pages \u003e 1, but\nit should only do so when nr_pages \u003e 2.\n\nIf an order-1 folio is allocated at the end of a vmemmap section,\n__page_2 will not exist and reading it will cause a fault.\n\nDuring DLPAR memory remove on a 22 TB ppc64le LPAR, snapshot_page() oopsed\non the page isolation path while reading an order-1 folio\u0027s __page_2 from\nan adjacent absent section (unmapped vmemmap).\n\nFix this to avoid reading memmap that doesn\u0027t exist (e.g., a vmemmap\nhole)."
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              "value": "AV:L - Reachable via local read(2) on /proc/kpageflags or /proc/kpagecount (kpage_read\u2192stable_page_flags/get_kpage_count\u2192snapshot_page); the reported production crash also occurs on the memory-hotplug page-isolation dump_page path during offline_pages/DLPAR, with no network or physical-bus entry point.\nAC:L - A container/user-namespace root can sequentially scan PFNs via /proc/kpageflags until snapshot_page hits an order-1 folio at a vmemmap section boundary; on large SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP systems such folios exist naturally (22 TB ppc64le LPAR oops) without races or attacker-uncontrollable timing.\nPR:L - /proc/kpage* is mode 0400 (root-only); exploitation needs only namespace/container root or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in a user namespace to read host proc on typical Docker/K8s/cloud nodes\u2014not init-namespace root; the DLPAR offline path needs admin but is not the lowest-privilege vector.\nUI:N - The attacker performs their own /proc/kpageflags reads or triggers kernel debug dumps; no separate victim action such as opening a file, mounting a filesystem, or approving a prompt is required beyond having local proc access.\nS:U - Impact is a kernel oops/panic within the host kernel security boundary; there is no VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or cross-authority resource access beyond crashing or destabilizing the shared kernel.\nC:H - snapshot_page() performs memcpy of a full struct page from foliop-\u003e__page_2 when only two pages are valid for order-1 folios, reading beyond allocated vmemmap into an unmapped hole; this out-of-bounds kernel read can expose adjacent mapped memmap bytes to the snapshot buffer on some layouts before faulting.\nI:N - The defect is a read past valid folio memmap that page-faults in kernel mode; memcpy only fills a local page_snapshot buffer and does not corrupt kernel objects, enable arbitrary writes, or provide a control-flow hijack primitive.\nA:H - Reading absent vmemmap for order-1 folios at section boundaries causes a supervisor page fault and kernel oops, as demonstrated during DLPAR memory remove on ppc64le; repeated /proc/kpageflags scanning can reliably panic or hang large-memory cloud/LPAR hosts."
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