CVE-2026-43434

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43434
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43434.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-43434
Downstream
Published
2026-05-08T14:22:05.269Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:13:27.456172834Z
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
rust_binder: check ownership before using vma
Details

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

rust_binder: check ownership before using vma

When installing missing pages (or zapping them), Rust Binder will look up the vma in the mm by address, and then call vminsertpage (or zappagerange_single). However, if the vma is closed and replaced with a different vma at the same address, this can lead to Rust Binder installing pages into the wrong vma.

By installing the page into a writable vma, it becomes possible to write to your own binder pages, which are normally read-only. Although you're not supposed to be able to write to those pages, the intent behind the design of Rust Binder is that even if you get that ability, it should not lead to anything bad. Unfortunately, due to another bug, that is not the case.

To fix this, store a pointer in vmprivatedata and check that the vma returned by vmalookup() has the right vmops and vmprivatedata before trying to use the vma. This should ensure that Rust Binder will refuse to interact with any other VMA. The plan is to introduce more vma abstractions to avoid this unsafe access to vmops and vmprivate_data, but for now let's start with the simplest possible fix.

C Binder performs the same check in a slightly different way: it provides a vmops->close that sets a boolean to true, then checks that boolean after calling vmalookup(), but this is more fragile than the solution in this patch. (We probably still want to do both, but the vm_ops->close callback will be added later as part of the follow-up vma API changes.)

It's still possible to remap the vma so that pages appear in the right vma, but at the wrong offset, but this is a separate issue and will be fixed when Rust Binder gets a vm_ops->close callback.

Database specific
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    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43434.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
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
20a01f20d1f4064d90a8627aa41b5987f0220bb9
Fixed
5a472d04fb4b9115fb7d1535bd885cea450f14db
Fixed
8ef2c15aeae07647f530d30f6daaf79eb801bcd1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43434.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-2026-43434.json"