{"id":"AZL-109293","summary":"CVE-2026-98506 affecting package kernel 6.6.157.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/hugetlb: do not dissolve gigantic pages without runtime support\n\ndissolve_free_hugetlb_folio() doesn't check\nhstate_is_gigantic_no_runtime(h) though remove_hugetlb_folio()/\nupdate_and_free_hugetlb_folio() silently bail for such folios, so it frees\na still-listed folio and, on vmemmap restore failure, the\nadd_hugetlb_folio() rollback corrupts the free list.","modified":"2026-10-19T14:17:06.088488381Z","published":"2026-10-18T16:17:01Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-98506"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98506"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.6.157.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-109293.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}