CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89600

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's fanotify subsystem regarding file range information. A pointer to the range position stored on the triggering task's stack is saved in a heap-allocated permission event, and when a signal interrupts the triggering task, the stack frame is unwound while the event reader still dereferences that pointer. This causes a stale stack value to be copied to userspace.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker could exploit this to leak stale kernel stack data or cause a kernel crash (panic), impacting confidentiality and availability. It was reported by KASAN as a use-after-free in fanotify_read.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that stores the range position directly in the permission event and uses FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE when range information is unavailable.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fanotify: fix use-after-free of file range info fsnotify_pre_content() builds its file_range on the triggering task's stack. fanotify_alloc_perm_event() saves a pointer to range.pos in the heap-allocated permission event so copy_range_info_to_user() can report the offset later. The event reader can set the event state to FAN_EVENT_REPORTED and then sleep while preparing the file descriptor. If a signal interrupts the triggering task at that point, fanotify_get_response() changes the state to FAN_EVENT_CANCELED and returns. This unwinds the file_range stack frame while the reader still owns the event. The reader then dereferences pevent->ppos and copies the stale stack value to userspace. KASAN reported: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in fanotify_read+0x293e/0x2970 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811434fc50 by task fanotify_inotif/95 Call Trace: fanotify_read+0x293e/0x2970 vfs_read+0x177/0xa20 ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0 do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Store the range position directly in the permission event and use FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE when range information is unavailable. The event remains alive until the reader finishes, so the reported offset no longer depends on the triggering task's stack.

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