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          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnamespace: don\u0027t let a pseudo dentry become the root of a mount\n\nd_alloc_pseudo() hands out dentries for pipes, sockets and other files\nthat are never anyone\u0027s child or parent. They carry DCACHE_NORCU and\ndentry_free() frees them right away because no lockless path walk can\never reach them. That holds as long as such a dentry isn\u0027t the root of\na mount. But bind mounting /proc/self/fd/\u003cfd\u003e of such a file does\nexactly that.\n\nMost callers of alloc_file_pseudo() put their files on kernel-internal\nmounts and may_copy_tree() refuses those. bpf_token_create() doesn\u0027t. It\nplaces the token file on the bpffs mount the caller handed it and that\nmount is in the caller\u0027s mount namespace so the clone goes through:\n\n  mount --bind /proc/self/fd/\u003ctoken\u003e \u003cfile\u003e\n  open_tree(tokfd, \"\", AT_EMPTY_PATH | OPEN_TREE_CLONE) + move_mount()\n\n__follow_mount_rcu() then loads -\u003emnt_root of that mount, reads d_seq\nand d_flags of the dentry and only then checks mount_lock. The dentry\ncan be gone by then. The final mntput() of an unmounted parent unhooks\na child that stayed attached to it under mount_lock alone. When the\nchild\u0027s holder does the final put right after that the root is dput()\nand freed immediately while a walker that found the mount hashed still\nlooks at it.\n\nRefuse to clone a mount with a DCACHE_NORCU dentry as its root. Nothing\nsensible can be done with a bind mount of a bpf token anyway."
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          "cvssV3_1": {
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            "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
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              "value": "AV:L - Local bpf(BPF_TOKEN_CREATE) reaches bpf_token_create()/alloc_file_pseudo(), after which mount(MS_BIND) or open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE) reaches the patched __do_loopback() on /proc/self/fd/\u003ctoken\u003e; no network protocol carries the triggering data.\nAC:L - The attacker controls creation and teardown of the token-root mount and can race cleanup_mnt()/dput() against openat() reaching __follow_mount_rcu() using concurrent threads; neither side of the race requires external timing or victim-controlled state.\nPR:L - bpf_token_create() requires CAP_BPF in the bpffs user namespace, while open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE) and move_mount() require CAP_SYS_ADMIN over the mount namespace; because bpf_fs_type has FS_USERNS_MOUNT, an ordinary user can obtain these capabilities through unprivileged user and mount namespaces.\nUI:N - The attacking process performs every required action itself: mounting delegated bpffs, creating the token, cloning and tearing down mounts, and racing openat(); no victim must mount, open, or otherwise process attacker-supplied data.\nS:U - The freed dentry is consumed by __follow_mount_rcu() inside the same host kernel, yielding ordinary local kernel compromise or denial of service rather than crossing a VM, IOMMU, or separate security-authority boundary.\nC:H - cleanup_mnt() can dput() and immediately free the DCACHE_NORCU mount root while __follow_mount_rcu() still reads its d_seq, d_flags, and potentially d_op; attacker-driven dentry-cache reuse makes this kernel UAF capable of high-impact memory disclosure.\nI:H - The freed struct dentry can be reclaimed through attacker-driven dentry allocation, letting heap spraying influence fields and the d_op-\u003ed_manage dispatch consumed by __follow_mount_rcu(); this is an exploitable kernel UAF path to arbitrary modification or control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - __follow_mount_rcu() dereferences the mount root after dentry_free() has returned it immediately to dentry_cache, so poisoned or reclaimed contents can cause a kernel oops or panic, and attacker-controlled threads can repeat the race."
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b138e16fb1e81376cea89f727dda7bfccd140de4"
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    "cveId": "CVE-2026-98982",
    "datePublished": "2026-10-23T12:19:59.784Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.384Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-10-24T14:09:50.745Z",
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