keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup
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What this means
The Linux kernel is vulnerable due to a use-after-free bug in named keyring lookup. Affected versions include those before specific git commits. The vulnerability allows reading freed memory.
Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.Attack conditions
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affected
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before 77249d4b1bb5ad43552b7023c4a0978937aa7a56
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before 0b865fa477d94ac96c26848aab1fd176397de3f6
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before 6763329f673d261641c79212abf773af77b2c922
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before aa03c8fb4334f14d218020f7431debf2b7766865
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before c9664f780f861dd9f11f120c7a03ed0993671ebb
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before b0830a26e2c3008a6e21863126b4a0e68b2761cd
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before 5c6a9512887a6cc694d594d9c0b57c0841d215b5
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before 40b12b93ae4ab9e22c3d571e9b09fd08afad53f6
git versions
2ea190d0a006ce5218baa6e798512652446a605a → before 51409aaa01f8602552c336009fd22b226b0cdf1d
git versions
Other versions: unaffected
Linux · Linux
Linux
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affected
2.6.30
unaffected
0 → before 2.6.30
semver versions
5.10.273 → through 5.10.*
semver versions
5.15.224 → through 5.15.*
semver versions
6.1.191 → through 6.1.*
semver versions
6.6.161 → through 6.6.*
semver versions
6.12.115 → through 6.12.*
semver versions
6.18.60 → through 6.18.*
semver versions
7.2.14 → through 7.2.*
semver versions
7.3.1 → through 7.3.*
semver versions
7.4-rc1 → through *
original_commit_for_fix versions
Other versions: affected
What to do
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Public exploit evidence
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Original source description
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup
Named keyring lookup must keep the storage containing the owner UID alive through the namespace mapping check. find_keyring_by_name() reads keyring->user->uid under keyring_name_lock, but that lock protects the keyring's name entry and allocation, not its separate key_user.
A named session-keyring join can overlap a privileged KEYCTL_CHOWN on another CPU. If the keyring holds the last reference to its old dynamic key_user and the ownership transfer succeeds, the following ordering is possible:
Named join Chown
find_keyring_by_name() keyctl_chown_key()
read_lock(keyring_name_lock) down_write(key->sem)
load old keyring->user
replace key->user and key->uid
up_write(key->sem)
key_put(key)
key_user_put(old user): free
read old user->uid
read_unlock(keyring_name_lock)
Chown neither takes keyring_name_lock nor key_session_mutex, so it can free the old account between the pointer load and the UID read. The lookup then reads freed memory even though the keyring itself is alive.
Use keyring->uid for the mapping check. key_alloc() initializes this inline owner UID and keyctl_chown_key() updates it on chown. The existing name lock keeps its containing keyring allocated throughout the check, so lookup no longer depends on the account's lifetime. This also matches the owner UID used by the permission check.
KASAN report as below:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_keyring_by_name+0x577/0x5d0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881128ae2ec by task keycase/500
References
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Evidence available
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Original records
CVE-2026-99226View the latest unmodified CVE JSON from the official source. It may be newer than this imported page.
cve.new JSON →Environment requirements
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Linux · platform conditions
Any condition may hold
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 5.10.273
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 5.15.224
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 6.1.191
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 6.6.161
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 6.12.115
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 6.18.60
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 7.2.14
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 7.3.1
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 2.6.30
Before: 7.4-rc1
Original applicability statements
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What changed
Follow changes- CVE · CVE-2026-99226
Observed 2026-11-03T19:50:23.330Z · upstream updated 2026-11-03T19:12:58.803Z
Product or version evidence changed
before
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before
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after
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Environment requirements changed
before
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