CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64015
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
security/keys: fix missed RCU read section on lookup
Nicholas Carlini reports that the keyring code calls assoc_array_find()
in find_key_to_update() without holding the RCU read lock, while the
assoc_array_gc() code really is designed around removing the node from
the tree and then freeing it after an RCU grace-period.
The regular key handling doesn't see this because holding the keyring
semaphore hides any lifetime issues, but the persistent key handling
uses a different model.
Instead of extending the keyring locking, just do the simple RCU locking
that the assoc_array was designed for.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.92)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.11)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d8d987a2aacde238ecd0f4946f28cef74c42b79 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43a1e3744548e6fd85873e6fb43e293eb4010694 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c5d407ba3ff7f30561ff73ba1b07ed70c864edc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5036a9aa7f21fbce89a2a8451bbc177bae2e920d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50bb3435a5e627bfbdc52eb4536f49f88b3486b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5659e6923cb72f8e18e8b539109ab512455fe195 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66288dcadf80974436250e9f70ed848836b835b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cefa4265b11176c897a7d9e8e54d89e3701c5584 Patch