{"id":"CVE-2026-63955","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-63955","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:28:30.999Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc: do not trigger BUG() on BH disabled context __get_vm_area_node() currently triggers a BUG() if in_interrupt() returns true.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/vmalloc: do not trigger BUG() on BH disabled context\n\n__get_vm_area_node() currently triggers a BUG() if in_interrupt() returns\ntrue.  However, in_interrupt() also reports true when BH are disabled.\n\nThe bridge code can call rhashtable_lookup_insert_fast() with bottom\nhalves disabled:\n\n__vlan_add()\n -> br_fdb_add_local()\n  spin_lock_bh(&br->hash_lock); <-- Disable BH\n   -> fdb_add_local()\n    -> fdb_create()\n     -> rhashtable_lookup_insert_fast()\n      -> kvmalloc()\n       -> vmalloc()\n        -> __get_vm_area_node()\n         -> BUG_ON(in_interrupt())\n  spin_unlock_bh(&br->hash_lock)\n\nthis triggers the BUG() despite the caller not being in NMI or\nhard IRQ context.\n\nReplace the in_interrupt() check with in_nmi() || in_hardirq().","published":"2026-07-19T16:17:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-07-27T17:44:24.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00488,"percentile":0.41722,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04aa71da5f35aacdc9ae9cb5150947daa624f641","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad7eff07b625f53c3fb513b30d7a8c5a79fbc7ce","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63955","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}