CVE-2026-90094 (GCVE-0-2026-90094)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:06 – Updated: 2026-09-17 16:06
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Title
arm64: process: Fix context switching MTE store-only tag check
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: process: Fix context switching MTE store-only tag check SCTLR_EL1.TCSO0 is set when user opt-in for MTE store-only tag check mode. However, it is not part of SCTLR_USER_MASK which imply that on context switch we never clear SCTLR_EL1.TCSO0, so we are leaking that setting into another task. Fix that by including SCTLR_EL1_TCSO0_MASK into SCTLR_USER_MASK
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4d51ff5bba00a13ca9b0b24883fa7adb07a167fc , < 00a73ce437e27fdc636a5ede445a4a491e01788d (git)
Affected: 4d51ff5bba00a13ca9b0b24883fa7adb07a167fc , < 2f10bc3ff24c91657887901c3235b803e5055f2b (git)
Affected: 4d51ff5bba00a13ca9b0b24883fa7adb07a167fc , < b8f070ac3167595069feb1f794c127b805115645 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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