CVE-2026-23400

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23400
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23400.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-23400
Downstream
Published
2026-03-29T12:55:50Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:16Z
Summary
rust_binder: call set_notification_done() without proc lock
Details

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

rust_binder: call set_notification_done() without proc lock

Consider the following sequence of events on a death listener:

  1. The remote process dies and sends a BR_DEAD_BINDER message.
  2. The local process invokes the BC_CLEAR_DEATH_NOTIFICATION command.
  3. The local process then invokes the BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE. Then, the kernel will reply to the BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE command with a BR_CLEAR_DEATH_NOTIFICATION_DONE reply using push_work_if_looper().

However, this can result in a deadlock if the current thread is not a looper. This is because dead_binder_done() still holds the proc lock during set_notification_done(), which called push_work_if_looper(). Normally, push_work_if_looper() takes the thread lock, which is fine to take under the proc lock. But if the current thread is not a looper, then it falls back to delivering the reply to the process work queue, which involves taking the proc lock. Since the proc lock is already held, this is a deadlock.

Fix this by releasing the proc lock during set_notification_done(). It was not intentional that it was held during that function to begin with.

I don't think this ever happens in Android because BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE is only invoked in response to BR_DEAD_BINDER messages, and the kernel always delivers BR_DEAD_BINDER to a looper. So there's no scenario where Android userspace will call BC_DEAD_BINDER_DONE on a non-looper thread.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/23xxx/CVE-2026-23400.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
eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513
Fixed
dd109e3442817bc03ad1f3ffd541092f8c428141
Fixed
3be72099067d2cd4a0e089696f19780f75b2b88a
Fixed
2e303f0febb65a434040774b793ba8356698802b

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23400.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.18.0
Fixed
6.18.19
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
6.19.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23400.json"