CVE-2026-23225

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23225
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23225.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-23225
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-02-18T14:53:28Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:17Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
sched/mmcid: Don't assume CID is CPU owned on mode switch
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched/mmcid: Don't assume CID is CPU owned on mode switch

Shinichiro reported a KASAN UAF, which is actually an out of bounds access in the MMCID management code.

CPU0 CPU1 T1 runs in userspace T0: fork(T4) -> Switch to per CPU CID mode fixup() set MM_CID_TRANSIT on T1/CPU1 T4 exit() T3 exit() T2 exit() T1 exit() switch to per task mode ---> Out of bounds access.

As T1 has not scheduled after T0 set the TRANSIT bit, it exits with the TRANSIT bit set. sched_mm_cid_remove_user() clears the TRANSIT bit in the task and drops the CID, but it does not touch the per CPU storage. That's functionally correct because a CID is only owned by the CPU when the ONCPU bit is set, which is mutually exclusive with the TRANSIT flag.

Now sched_mm_cid_exit() assumes that the CID is CPU owned because the prior mode was per CPU. It invokes mm_drop_cid_on_cpu() which clears the not set ONCPU bit and then invokes clear_bit() with an insanely large bit number because TRANSIT is set (bit 29).

Prevent that by actually validating that the CID is CPU owned in mm_drop_cid_on_cpu().

Database specific
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    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/23xxx/CVE-2026-23225.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
007d84287c7466ca68a5809b616338214dc5b77b
Fixed
81f29975631db8a78651b3140ecd0f88ffafc476
Fixed
1e83ccd5921a610ef409a7d4e56db27822b4ea39

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23225.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
6.19.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23225.json"