Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-64167
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kho: skip KHO for crash kernel
kho_fill_kimage() unconditionally populates the kimage with KHO
metadata for every kexec image type. When the image is a crash kernel,
this can be problematic as the crash kernel can run in a small reserved
region and the KHO scratch areas can sit outside it.
The crash kernel then faults during kho_memory_init() when it
tries phys_to_virt() on the KHO FDT address:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxxxx
...
fdt_offset_ptr+...
fdt_check_node_offset_+...
fdt_first_property_offset+...
fdt_get_property_namelen_+...
fdt_getprop+...
kho_memory_init+...
mm_core_init+...
start_kernel+...
kho_locate_mem_hole() already skips KHO logic for KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH
images, but kho_fill_kimage() was missing the same guard. As
kho_fill_kimage() is the single point that populates image->kho.fdt
and image->kho.scratch, fixing it here is sufficient for both arm64
and x86 as the FDT and boot_params path are bailing out when these
fields are unset.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 1.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-64167
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1