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              "status": "unaffected",
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        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnamespace: reset the old parent\u0027s -\u003eovermount in mnt_change_mountpoint()\n\n__umount_mnt() resets -\u003eovermount of the parent when it unmounts the\nmount that overmounts it. mnt_change_mountpoint() doesn\u0027t. It moves the\nmount to its new parent and leaves the old one pointing at it.\n\nFor a mount that is moved beneath in attach_recursive_mnt() that doesn\u0027t\nmatter. The new mount has already reset -\u003eovermount of the old parent by\nthe time the old top mount is moved onto it.\n\nIt matters for reparent() though. propagate_umount() moves a surviving\novermount onto the first ancestor that isn\u0027t going to be unmounted. The\nmount it was taken from is unmounted immediately afterwards. If a file\ndescriptor keeps that unmounted mount alive -\u003eovermount points at the\nmoved mount. That\u0027s a dangling pointer and UAF as the moved mount is\nunmounted and freed.\n\ndo_lock_mount() follows -\u003eovermount from the target path under\nmount_lock. With a file descriptor on such a mount as the target of a\nmount beneath topmost_overmount() walks into the freed mount and\ndo_lock_mount() takes references on whatever it finds there.\n\nSo reset -\u003eovermount of the old parent in mnt_change_mountpoint() the\nsame way __umount_mnt() does. A mount\u0027s -\u003eovermount is then always a\nmount that is attached to it."
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          "cvssV3_1": {
            "baseScore": 7.8,
            "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
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              "lang": "en",
              "value": "AV:L - Local umount2() reaches do_umount()-\u003eumount_tree()-\u003epropagate_umount()-\u003ereparent()-\u003emnt_change_mountpoint(), and local move_mount(MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH) later consumes the dangling overmount; no network or physical input reaches this path.\nAC:L - The regression test deterministically creates the propagation topology, pins X_b, frees its reparented overmount, and triggers the UAF; no race or external state is required, and any mount-cache grooming is attacker-controlled.\nPR:L - can_umount() and move_mount() require may_mount(), but the test\u0027s unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWNS) gives an ordinary local user CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the child mount namespace, satisfying every mount-operation gate without init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker personally creates the shared/private tmpfs mounts, opens the O_PATH descriptor, performs both lazy unmounts, and invokes move_mount(); no victim must mount, open, or otherwise act on anything.\nS:U - The dangling struct mount created by mnt_change_mountpoint() corrupts the same host kernel that enforces the attacker\u0027s mount namespace; this is ordinary kernel privilege escalation, not a VM, hypervisor, or IOMMU boundary crossing.\nC:H - topmost_overmount() reads freed struct mount contents, and where_to_mount() then consumes its stale overmount, mnt_mountpoint, and mnt_parent pointers; reclaiming the mnt_cache object permits redirected kernel-memory accesses and high-impact disclosure.\nI:H - do_lock_mount() calls mntget() and dget() through the freed mount-derived pointers, causing reference-count writes through stale mnt_pcp and dentry state; mount-cache reclamation and heap grooming can turn these UAF writes into control-flow corruption.\nA:H - Following the freed overmount and then dereferencing or locking the stale dentry-\u003ed_inode can produce a kernel UAF oops or panic, and the complete mount/unmount/move_mount sequence is repeatable by the same unprivileged process."
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e0a1f2c753a79749bc2ead3ae2f2ede3941daa5"
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08d575ee89393fd812dbdca7b5d7b4574cd5a564"
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/476ef286a7a5db8bda51325dc0c45887b4d99d9a"
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      "title": "namespace: reset the old parent\u0027s -\u003eovermount in mnt_change_mountpoint()",
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    "cveId": "CVE-2026-98995",
    "datePublished": "2026-10-23T12:20:14.155Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.384Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-10-24T14:09:55.095Z",
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