CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68148
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fscrypt: Add missing superblock check in find_or_insert_direct_key()
The legacy 'fscrypt_direct_keys' table caches master keys that are used
by v1 encryption policies that have FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY.
It's just a global table for all filesystems (since the keys can be
provided by the legacy process-subscribed keyrings mechanism, which
makes it difficult to reuse super_block::s_master_keys).
The entries in it ('struct fscrypt_direct_key') do contain a super_block
pointer, though, for passing to fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() when
the last inode that references the key is evicted.
However, when finding the fscrypt_direct_key for an inode, we weren't
actually comparing the super_block pointer. As a result, inodes with
different super_blocks could point to the same fscrypt_direct_key. That
could extend the lifetime of a fscrypt_direct_key beyond the
super_block it points to, causing a use-after-free later.
Fix this by creating distinct fscrypt_direct_key structs for distinct
super_block structs.
Note that this problem doesn't exist in the v2 policy equivalent
("per-mode keys"), since the data structures there are per super_block.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/330249609b70778094a7a36f5b6bcfa6362121d4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/466f187b501a5ac8e1ea2ccf3ccd5c46108d8830 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95376fe9c145be35566991df99c53134943d992f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965b5bc8cf5031225e057979ce660fec2bd5fbfc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5fa40226e71c17847b9ff2816c6ca4133d0d994 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deff41898a5ae3a47db5fa1896a494aa95efda5d git.kernel.org