CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64059
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-09-02
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()
Under some circumstances, netfs_perform_write() doesn't correctly
manipulate folio->private between NULL, NETFS_FOLIO_COPY_TO_CACHE, pointing
to a group and pointing to a netfs_folio struct, leading to potential
multiple attachments of private data with associated folio ref leaks and
also leaks of netfs_folio structs or netfs_group refs.
Fix this by consolidating the place at which a folio is marked uptodate in
one place and having that look at what's attached to folio->private and
decide how to clean it up and then set the new group. Also, the content
shouldn't be flushed if group is NULL, even if a group is specified in the
netfs_group parameter, as that would be the case for a new folio. A
filesystem should always specify netfs_group or never specify netfs_group.
The Sashiko auto-review tool noted that it was theoretically possible that
the fpos >= ctx->zero_point section might leak if it modified a streaming
write folio. This is unlikely, but with a network filesystem, third party
changes can happen. It also pointed out that __netfs_set_group() would
leak if called multiple times on the same folio from the "whole folio
modify section".
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.92)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.11)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0969ea8370bad0e4fb6131b6a7bed9e7ec522ac7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/551b5c71ee312ca7646ddb605231c1016e8cbb18 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f040243c74d72b45b22246c7d9e621fbeab44ac Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccde2ac757c713535b224233a296de40efe5212d Patch