CVE-2026-99051

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99051
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-99051.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-99051
Downstream
Published
2026-10-23T12:22:30Z
Modified
2026-10-26T02:36:25Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
fsverity: RCU-delay the freeing of struct fsverity_info
Details

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

fsverity: RCU-delay the freeing of struct fsverity_info

__fsverity_get_info() calls rhashtable_lookup_fast(), which just uses rcu_read_lock() and doesn't directly synchronize with fsverity_remove_info().

For the same inode this isn't a problem: its fsverity_info is removed only at inode eviction time or upon failure to enable verity, when the inode no longer needs its fsverity_info and it will no longer be accessed via that inode.

However, this is broken and can cause a use-after-free for concurrent __fsverity_get_info() for different inodes. Those rely on following fsverity_info::rhash_head in the rhashtable under rcu_read_lock() only. They also use fsverity_info::inode to do the key comparison.

Fix this by RCU-delaying the freeing of 'struct fsverity_info' after it's been removed from the rhashtable.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/99xxx/CVE-2026-99051.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
f77f281b61183a5c0b87e6a4d101c70bd32c1c79
Fixed
fa84f091a8e7fc46fd29834496fab9739dd4c8dc
Fixed
e58c3805ed325fe2d4ae2dd467c0486cc860b733

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-99051.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.0.0
Fixed
7.2.11

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-99051.json"