CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-99036
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm: fix reading free memory in do_resume
When do_resume calls dm_table_get_mode(new_map), the call is done without
holding any locks (it only holds a reference to the md). It may be
possible that another concurrent ioctl on the same device will swap table
after dm_swap_table and before dm_table_get_mode. In this case,
dm_table_get_mode(new_map) reads freed memory.
This race condition was triggered by syzbot.
This commit fixes the race by reading mode of the new table before
dm_swap_table. Note that new_map is also passed to dm_ima_need_measure,
but this function doesn't attempt to dereference it, so this call should
be safe.
Note that this is not a security bug because only root can trigger it and
the commonly used tools such as lvm or cryptsetup do not call the ioctls
concurrently, so that they can't trigger it acceidentally.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/281f68d6cf8acb2547ebf0a849b8beae8fb0ec3c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c96d1a8324e7736e0f8a5790ecf39d36c2c4a82 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/301691c32b8ad023e3316d5dbb6a8cf52d47b0dc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9417c1c5269e2bd0570fbe53e4ec03a8d31f008 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3bf232c913b7e0103d323f15e6342d37cb1b357 git.kernel.org