dm: clear cloned request bio pointer when last clone bio completes (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43278
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: clear cloned request bio pointer when last clone bio completes Stale rq->bio values have been observed to cause double-initialization of cloned bios in request-based device-mapper targets, leading to use-after-free and double-free scenarios. One such case occurs when using dm-multipath on top of a PCIe NVMe namespace, where cloned request bios are freed during blk_complete_request(), but rq->bio is left intact. Subsequent clone teardown then attempts to free the same bios again via blk_rq_unprep_clone(). The resulting double-free path looks like: nvme_pci_complete_batch() nvme_complete_batch() blk_mq_end_request_batch() blk_complete_request() // called on a DM clone request bio_endio() // first free of all clone bios ... rq->end_io() // end_clone_request() dm_complete_request(tio->orig) dm_softirq_done() dm_done() dm_end_request() blk_rq_unprep_clone() // second free of clone bios Fix this by clearing the clone request's bio pointer when the last cloned bio completes, ensuring that later teardown paths do not attempt to free already-released bios.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff < 8d9ddad561136f7e6a9346767bf97b4d79e38e67 ; affected ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff < 7daf279c674d515fb22a727a7bbc92aeb35c5442 ; affected ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff < e2e738e8dfbbf83bd2bae0467ec4420cc52da42a ; affected ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff < b1c1a2637ebd675aa2d71fee8c70da8791d73850 ; affected ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff < 83d72091804600ead96dc9e9f518ea56cb4942f6 ; affected ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff < fb8a6c18fb9a6561f7a15b58b272442b77a242dd
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.1 ; unaffected 0 < 6.1 ; unaffected 6.1.165 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.128 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.75 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.16 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD