CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89765
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
timers/itimer: Zero-init old itimerval before copy to userspace
On native sparc64, struct __kernel_old_timeval contains a four-byte hole
after tv_usec because tv_sec is 64-bit while __kernel_suseconds_t is 32-bit.
put_itimerval() fills only the named fields in a stack-allocated
__kernel_old_itimerval and copies the entire object to userspace, so
getitimer() can expose the two padding holes.
Zero-initialize the aggregate before assigning the fields so implicit
padding is deterministic before it crosses the user/kernel boundary.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00ef529a5402f41eb1d227916437e237450719f9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18c7d85864e554adc8fad1e8d2e9d2cb6c3911c8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bf5e8f7c9bf4ad3be343a9a6e3e50a34264d25e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c66719dd1e4023c5e3f7d050f1bbefec3dfbeb4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ea70146ab9376092297eb8b622ef1792797f2cf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d4b937251386d9c6f968e7802f0cb16a8523772 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a17b345daff46fec4af9f1ecbdf350208016dd15 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdfda99c5763822a9a888e8af0ad7d9312ffcfe2 git.kernel.org