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mempool poisoning

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The mempool poisoning tag on WindowsForum.com covers a specific Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2025-68231, which involves a bug in the mempool poisoning path. This bug can cause kernel page faults when mempools allocate order > 0 pages on systems with CONFIG_HIGHMEM enabled. The fix corrects how the kernel maps and poisons individual subpages of a high-order allocation, preventing out-of-bounds kernel writes that led to reproducible OOPS messages during early initialization and driver loading. While the tag is Linux-specific, it may interest Windows users who also manage or troubleshoot Linux systems in mixed environments.
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    Linux Kernel CVE-2025-68231 Fix: HIGHMEM Mempool Order >0 Page Faults

    A small but consequential fix landed in the Linux kernel tree this winter to address CVE-2025-68231 — a bug in the mempool poisoning path that can trigger kernel page faults when mempools allocate order > 0 pages on systems configured with CONFIG_HIGHMEM. The patch corrects how the kernel maps...
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