module/dups: Fix use-after-free in kmod_dup_req lifetime handling (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-90291
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module/dups: Fix use-after-free in kmod_dup_req lifetime handling The kmod dups code uses RCU to ensure that a kmod_dup_req instance is freed only after it is no longer referenced. When releasing an instance, the kmod_dup_request_delete() function removes the kmod_dup_req from the dup_kmod_reqs list, waits via synchronize_rcu() and finally frees it. However, this doesn't work correctly because parallel users referencing the instance in kmod_dup_request_exists_wait() don't enter an RCU read-side critical section. This can result in a use-after-free. The kmod_dup_request_exists_wait() function may need to hold a valid reference to a kmod_dup_req instance across a blocking wait until the corresponding modprobe command completes. This makes it unsuitable for RCU. Fix the issue by changing the lifecycle management of kmod_dup_req to use reference counting.

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 products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 8660484ed1cf3261e89e0bad94c6395597e87599 < a3205bd1f218053575589b14caf8df667f344134 ; affected 8660484ed1cf3261e89e0bad94c6395597e87599 < 2c85e0fb528e039aa8ea1e9c2a1f64347f990541 ; affected 8660484ed1cf3261e89e0bad94c6395597e87599 < b2709aad7599f6fd957939b60f4a8323c8f08072 ; affected 8660484ed1cf3261e89e0bad94c6395597e87599 < cd2396fc9684d2cfd3f3c3f09c79d6d9d725b0ca ; affected 8660484ed1cf3261e89e0bad94c6395597e87599 < 5eecb11b543f9f417bcf0dea239ff99c6af65dbd
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.4 ; unaffected 0 < 6.4 ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.110 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.52 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2.6 ≤ 7.2.*

Sources

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