landlock: Fix use-after-free of the source's parent directory (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-97594
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: landlock: Fix use-after-free of the source's parent directory current_check_refer_path() reads old_dentry->d_parent without holding a reference nor a lock on it, and then dereferences it in collect_domain_accesses() and in the audit record. A reference on a child does not pin its parent: __d_move() reassigns dentry->d_parent and drops the reference the child held on its former parent. hook_path_rename() is not affected because the rename path calls lock_rename() before the hook, so the source cannot be reparented under it. hook_path_link() has no such protection: filename_linkat() holds a reference on the source dentry but neither locks nor references its parent, so a concurrent rename(2) can reparent the source while security_path_link() runs, and the former parent can then be removed and freed while the hook walks it. A process can trigger this after entering a Landlock domain that handles at least one filesystem access right. The process can then race a linkat(2) loop against rename(2) and rmdir(2): BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in collect_domain_accesses+0x278/0x290 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888160bd53f4 by task llrepro2/549 collect_domain_accesses+0x278/0x290 current_check_refer_path+0x952/0x1120 security_path_link+0x1be/0x320 filename_linkat+0x342/0x6d0 __x64_sys_linkat+0xfa/0x150 Freed by task 562: kmem_cache_free+0x139/0x4c0 i_callback+0x4b/0x80 rcu_core+0x7dc/0x10a0 Take a reference on the dentry selected as the source parent, using dget() for the common-mount-root case and dget_parent() otherwise. Release it after the hierarchy walk and synchronous audit logging. [mic: Clarify the caller, reachability, and reference handling]

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 b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 < 0475440ff8c04be26a88733af0c85f597bb28c0a ; affected b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 < 48fc1c74052c956c59d5b16b5e18e0dd36b76aa2 ; affected b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 < 4c37992b9668c4f37aae41dd95c369f7b6009915 ; affected b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 < 379efd2ce8b26fd35feb13ccc2f671ff105a5052 ; affected b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 < ba29c46ccfe3ebadfb8aa18149186c49f84b14f8 ; affected b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 < 2c6dc792538260a8087ac5b22c31b3b8e47c85d6
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.19 ; unaffected 0 < 5.19 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.112 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.53 ≤ 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