CVE record · CVE-2026-97533

x86/mm/pat: Acquire init_mm read lock on attribute changes to avoid UAF

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 41d88484c71cd4f659348da41b7b5b3dbd3be1f6 to before e21a9ea81426a85fdb0cdcfcc99d5d9c16b402ab git affected 41d88484c71cd4f659348da41b7b5b3dbd3be1f6 to before cc73b2043d106b467accd38e9b1fc09e0607c056 git affected 41d88484c71cd4f659348da41b7b5b3dbd3be1f6 to before d5d8b8662e6e5a565b47a0388640e88402f23274 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.15 unaffected before 6.15 semver unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-97533
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 25 Sept 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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