Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-90638.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-90638
Upstream
Published
2026-06-24T08:16:22Z
Modified
2026-08-28T17:47:53Z
Summary
CVE-2026-52923 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.143.1-1
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range

The checkpoint/restore sysctl path can request the next SysV IPC id through ids->next_id. ipc_idr_alloc() currently forwards that request to idr_alloc() with an open-ended upper bound.

If the valid tail of the SysV IPC id space is full, the allocation can spill beyond ipc_mni. The returned SysV IPC id still uses the normal index encoding, so later lookup and removal can target the wrong slot. This leaves the real IDR entry behind and breaks the IDR state for the object.

The bug is in ipc_idr_alloc() in the checkpoint/restore path.

  1. ids->next_id is passed to:

    idr_alloc(&ids->ipcs_idr, new, ipcid_to_idx(next_id), 0, ...)
    
  2. The zero upper bound makes the allocation effectively open-ended. Once the valid SysV IPC tail is occupied, idr_alloc() can spill past ipc_mni and allocate an entry beyond the valid IPC id range.

  3. The new object id is still encoded with the narrower SysV IPC index width:

    new->id = (new->seq << ipcmni_seq_shift()) + idx
    
  4. Later removal goes through ipc_rmid(), which uses:

    ipcid_to_idx(ipcp->id)
    

    That truncates the real IDR index. An object actually stored at a high index can then be removed as if it lived at a low in-range index.

  5. For shared memory, shm_destroy() frees the current object anyway, but the real high IDR slot is left behind as a dangling pointer.

  6. A subsequent walk of /proc/sysvipc/shm reaches the stale IDR entry and dereferences freed memory.

Prevent this by bounding the requested allocation to ipc_mni so the checkpoint/restore path fails once the valid range is exhausted.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.6.143.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-90638.json"