CVE-2026-80724 (GCVE-0-2026-80724)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-28 07:03
Modified
2026-08-29 06:22
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable vmclock_miscdev_mmap() rejects writable mappings of the shared vmclock ABI page with -EROFS, but leaves VM_MAYWRITE set. Userspace can map the page read-only and then upgrade it to writable with mprotect(), after which the guest can corrupt the host-written timekeeping data (sequence counter, UTC time, TSC offset) that the vmclock ABI defines as read-only. Clear VM_MAYWRITE on the read-only path so the mapping cannot be upgraded, as i915 does for its read-only objects and as fixed in drm/vc4 (CVE-2026-68445) and drm/panthor (CVE-2024-53071).
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Linux Linux Version: 20503272422693d793b84f88bf23fe4e955d3a33
Version: 20503272422693d793b84f88bf23fe4e955d3a33
Version: 20503272422693d793b84f88bf23fe4e955d3a33
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