High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2026· Updated Aug 27, 2026
CVE-2026-80582
CVE-2026-80582
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/shmem_helper: Check VMA boundaries for PMD mappings
In the ->huge_fault handler do not install a PMD huge page mapping if the huge page exceeds the boundaries of the VMA.
All other ->huge_fault handlers have similar checks and the resulting mapping will trigger a VM_BUG_ON_VMA() if it ever reaches copy_pmd_range().
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