CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93137
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix use-after-free on mm_struct in bpf_find_vma()
bpf_find_vma() reads task->mm and calls mmap_read_trylock(mm) without
holding a reference on the mm. On a foreign task, a concurrent exit_mm()
can free the mm_struct between the lockless read and the trylock,
resulting in a use-after-free. mm_struct is not SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU.
For the current task, task->mm is stable. For a foreign task, pin the mm
under task->alloc_lock and release it with mmput_async(), mirroring commit
d8e27d2d22b6 ("bpf: fix mm lifecycle in open-coded task_vma iterator").
Use spin_trylock() instead of get_task_mm() so BPF context does not block
on alloc_lock. Reject irqs-disabled contexts and !CONFIG_MMU on the
foreign-task path because dropping the mm reference is not safe there.
Race:
CPU0 (BPF program) CPU1 (exiting task)
============================ ==========================
bpf_find_vma(foreign_task):
mm = task->mm
exit_mm():
task->mm = NULL
mmput(mm) -> frees mm_struct
mmap_read_trylock(mm)
// UAF on mm
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b2a903bee56d312539046d9defa8023eec94760 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b079e2117a2ee52e21f8b72935900c702fc0b5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86d54cf069fc5ae2e111c87933bebf6eb527978e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e1101fc4118019a69c96ced4aec93164f89cbd5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7ad910e987008e125eeff448892e86852173384 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db347840d6b6ee9bb9b8e4a985d4b4419f9f3200 git.kernel.org