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CVE-2026-98990 (GCVE-0-2026-98990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 12:20 – Updated: 2026-10-23 12:20

Title

namespace: check a submount for references right before unmounting it

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: namespace: check a submount for references right before unmounting it shrink_submounts() and mark_mounts_for_expiry() first collect all the mounts they are allowed to unmount and then unmount them. Whether a mount is busy is decided by propagate_mount_busy() on the tree. But unmounting the first mount changes the tree that the second one propagates into. propagate_umount() moves a surviving overmount off a copy it unmounts and mounts it where the copy was mounted. If that's where the propagated copy of the second victim is looked up the overmount becomes a candidate of the second umount_tree(). It's childless and so trim_one() commits it without looking at its reference count. So a synchronous umount pulls out a busy mount that is in use somewhere else and marks it MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT while it has users: umount2(/tmp/plshrink/p1, 0) = 0 errno 0 cwd is (unreachable) The same two umounts requested one after the other fail with EBUSY. This needs a mount with MNT_SHRINKABLE, i.e., automounted submounts of NFS, AFS and CIFS or the tracefs mount below debugfs. Bind mounts inherit the flag. Check each mount right before it is unmounted under the same hold of namespace_sem and mount_lock as the umount itself. Make sure that the algorithm stays linear.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7061 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6394281834492c65…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e4012e571867868b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d73f04e92c1aab78d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18902a23ef36f83d3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32bf92416614a1e3f…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1064f874abc0d05eeed8993815f584d847b72486 , < f6394281834492c6516a405a348b545ae698a331 (git) Affected: 1064f874abc0d05eeed8993815f584d847b72486 , < 6e4012e571867868b545c91ca9d6095fdb709907 (git) Affected: 1064f874abc0d05eeed8993815f584d847b72486 , < d73f04e92c1aab78d96ac6cadb234c8a3a373d22 (git) Affected: 1064f874abc0d05eeed8993815f584d847b72486 , < 18902a23ef36f83d32bafc58ae2484e6bb4bb8ef (git) Affected: 1064f874abc0d05eeed8993815f584d847b72486 , < 32bf92416614a1e3ff3524fc6b780259c7aad3ef (git) Affected: 5e6ef5ef6eaf690faad3a7c6c665ebf45d7b6ccf (git) Affected: 839d42687dfce0ed0ea2c6bd8d707cc0e276fbe7 (git) Affected: 808e83e5add13152bd4a88346487de68395c136b (git) Affected: 6de9d08a9718ee9c12ba6343c50141c2d633e3dc (git) Affected: 4.1.40 , < 4.2 (semver) Affected: 4.4.54 , < 4.5 (semver) Affected: 4.9.15 , < 4.10 (semver) Affected: 4.10.3 , < 4.11 (semver)	guessed
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.11 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.113 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.57 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.11 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-98990

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-23 13:17 - Updated: 2026-10-23 13:17

Severity

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32bf92416614a1e3ff3524fc6b780259c7aad3ef
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e4012e571867868b545c91ca9d6095fdb709907
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d73f04e92c1aab78d96ac6cadb234c8a3a373d22
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6394281834492c6516a405a348b545ae698a331

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GHSA-5V88-6PXR-8V5G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-23 15:31 – Updated: 2026-10-23 15:31

Details

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

namespace: check a submount for references right before unmounting it

shrink_submounts() and mark_mounts_for_expiry() first collect all the mounts they are allowed to unmount and then unmount them.

Whether a mount is busy is decided by propagate_mount_busy() on the tree. But unmounting the first mount changes the tree that the second one propagates into. propagate_umount() moves a surviving overmount off a copy it unmounts and mounts it where the copy was mounted. If that's where the propagated copy of the second victim is looked up the overmount becomes a candidate of the second umount_tree(). It's childless and so trim_one() commits it without looking at its reference count.

So a synchronous umount pulls out a busy mount that is in use somewhere else and marks it MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT while it has users:

umount2(/tmp/plshrink/p1, 0) = 0 errno 0 cwd is (unreachable)

The same two umounts requested one after the other fail with EBUSY. This needs a mount with MNT_SHRINKABLE, i.e., automounted submounts of NFS, AFS and CIFS or the tracefs mount below debugfs. Bind mounts inherit the flag.

Check each mount right before it is unmounted under the same hold of namespace_sem and mount_lock as the umount itself. Make sure that the algorithm stays linear.

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