{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-98507", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.354Z", "datePublished": "2026-10-18T15:17:13.767Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-21T12:55:17.804Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-21T12:55:17.804Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/rmap: fix missing barrier between anon_vma init and vma->anon_vma publish\n\nOn arm64 server, we find that a task trying to grab the anon_vma lock\ntriggers hungtask.\n\nINFO: task main:2354726 blocked for more than 120 seconds.\n Tainted: G E 5.10.0-0021.aarch64 #1\n\"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\ntask:main state:D stack: 0 pid:2354726 ppid:2350673 flags:0x00000a01\nCall trace:\n __switch_to+0x7c/0xbc\n __schedule+0x3b4/0x8a0\n schedule+0x50/0xe0\n rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x3cc/0x6cc\n down_write+0x60/0x260\n __anon_vma_prepare+0x6c/0x210\n do_anonymous_page+0x258/0x660\n handle_pte_fault+0x188/0x214\n __handle_mm_fault+0x1b0/0x380\n handle_mm_fault+0xf4/0x284\n do_page_fault+0x19c/0x494\n do_translation_fault+0xcc/0xf8\n do_mem_abort+0x48/0xac\n el0_da+0x44/0x80\n el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xb4\n el0_sync+0x160/0x180\n\nAfter analyzing the vmcore, we found the anon_vma->root->rwsem.count is\n-1. There is another anon_vma whose anon_vma->root->rwsem.count is 1, the\nanon_vma->root->rwsem.owner shows the lock is held, but the stack of the\ntask shows the task doesn't hold the anon_vma lock.\n\nAfter adding more debugging info, we found __anon_vma_prepare() reuses\nanon_vma and triggers the UAF of anon_vma->root due to missing memory\nbarrier, leading to locking and unlocking two different anon_vma->root,\nthus leading to an anon_vma will never be unlocked, and another anon_vma\ncouldn't be locked anymore.\n\nThis race requires two adjacent VMAs that are not merged but are\nanon_vma-compatible (e.g., they differ in VMA_ACCESS_FLAGS that can be\nchanged by mprotect()). Two threads fault on each VMA concurrently, both\ncalling __anon_vma_prepare() with only mmap_lock held for reading.\n\n THREAD A THREAD B\n__anon_vma_prepare __anon_vma_prepare\n find_mergeable_anon_vma() -> NULL\n anon_vma = anon_vma_alloc();\n anon_vma->root = anon_vma;\n // the two stores may be reordered\n vma->anon_vma = anon_vma;\n // finds A's anon_vma\n anon_vma = find_mergeable_anon_vma(vma);\n anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);\n // may still see the old root\n down_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem);\n anon_vma_unlock_write(anon_vma);\n // see the new root, never unlock old\n up_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem);\n\nthread A triggers page fault and calls __anon_vma_prepare() to prepare\nanon_vma for the faulting vma. __anon_vma_prepare() allocates and\ninitializes a new anon_vma, and then publishes it to the vma with a plain\nstore. anon_vma_prepare() only requires the mmap_lock to be held for\nreading, so two threads can fault on adjacent VMAs at the same time. \nWhile thread A publishes a new anon_vma, thread B could find the anon_vma\nvia find_mergeable_anon_vma() and then locks anon_vma->root->rwsem.\n\nThe store to anon_vma->root in anon_vma_alloc() and the store to\nvma->anon_vma can be reordered. The anon_vma_lock_write() and spin_lock()\nonly provide acquire semantics, which do not prevent prior stores from\nbeing reordered after them. The release semantics of the corresponding\nspin_unlock() and anon_vma_unlock_write() come too late, the store to\nvma->anon_vma is already published before they take effect. As a result,\nthread B can observe the following order:\n\n vma->anon_vma = anon_vma;\n anon_vma->root = anon_vma;\n\nThe anon_vma slab is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, so a newly allocated anon_vma\nmay reuse memory from a previously freed one. The constructor\n(anon_vma_ctor) does not reset anon_vma->root, and __put_anon_vma()\ndoesn't clear it either, so the old root value persists until\nanon_vma_alloc() overwrites it. If that store isn't v\n---truncated---" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "mm/rmap.c", "mm/vma.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5c341ee1dfc8fe69d66b1c8b19e463c6d7201ae1", "lessThan": "465e222815c8839445d09028fa4c77e70f7f1c7d", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5c341ee1dfc8fe69d66b1c8b19e463c6d7201ae1", "lessThan": "a500df43cde075f6ea4b8bae495d89f2c35b3e16", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5c341ee1dfc8fe69d66b1c8b19e463c6d7201ae1", "lessThan": "4cef512a955e4008ae4436a4fc97726976df1fdf", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5c341ee1dfc8fe69d66b1c8b19e463c6d7201ae1", "lessThan": "d348a715380bfcc6a611bdf722169d53fd01e735", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5c341ee1dfc8fe69d66b1c8b19e463c6d7201ae1", "lessThan": "b6ac0b3f6013c168f22cad97e79967accacb08e1", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "mm/rmap.c", "mm/vma.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "2.6.36", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "2.6.36", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.6.160", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.112", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.55", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.2.9", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.36", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.160" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.36", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.112" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.36", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.55" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.36", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.9" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.36", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/465e222815c8839445d09028fa4c77e70f7f1c7d" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a500df43cde075f6ea4b8bae495d89f2c35b3e16" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cef512a955e4008ae4436a4fc97726976df1fdf" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d348a715380bfcc6a611bdf722169d53fd01e735" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6ac0b3f6013c168f22cad97e79967accacb08e1" } ], "title": "mm/rmap: fix missing barrier between anon_vma init and vma->anon_vma publish", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }