Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In May 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid for node_memcg_{used,free}_bp
Users can set damos_quota_goal->nid with arbitrary value for
node_memcg_{used,free}_bp. But DAMON core is using those for NODE-DATA()
without a validation of the value. This can result in out of bounds
memory access. The issue can actually triggered using DAMON user-space
tool (damo), like below.
$ sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/foo
$ sudo ./damo start --damos_action stat --damos_quota_interval 1s \
--damos_quota_goal node_memcg_used_bp 50% -1 /foo
$ sudo dmseg
[...]
[ 524.181426] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000002c00
Fix this issue by adding the validation of the given node id. If an
invalid node id is given, it returns 0% for used memory ratio, and 100%
for free memory ratio.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: nx - fix bounce buffer leaks in nx842_crypto_{alloc,free}_ctx
The bounce buffers are allocated with __get_free_pages() using
BOUNCE_BUFFER_ORDER (order 2 = 4 pages), but both the allocation error
path and nx842_crypto_free_ctx() release the buffers with free_page().
Use free_pages() with the matching order instead.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntfs3: fix integer overflow in run_unpack() volume boundary check
The volume boundary check `lcn + len > sbi->used.bitmap.nbits` uses raw
addition which can wrap around for large lcn and len values, bypassing
the validation. Use check_add_overflow() as is already done for the
adjacent prev_lcn + dlcn and vcn64 + len checks added by commit
3ac37e100385 ("ntfs3: Fix integer overflow in run_unpack()").
Found by fuzzing with a source-patched harness (LibAFL + QEMU).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/shstk: Prevent deadlock during shstk sigreturn
During sigreturn the shadow stack signal frame is popped. The kernel does
this by reading the shadow stack using normal read accesses. When it can't
assume the memory is shadow stack, it takes extra steps to makes sure it is
reading actual shadow stack memory and not other normal readable memory. It
does this by holding the mmap read lock while doing the access and checking
the flags of the VMA.
Unfortunately that is not safe. If the read of the shadow stack sigframe
hits a page fault, the fault handler will try to recursively grab another
mmap read lock. This normally works ok, but if a writer on another CPU is
also waiting, the second read lock could fail and cause a deadlock.
Fix this by not holding mmap lock during the read access to userspace.
Instead use mmap_lock_speculate_...() to watch for changes between dropping
mmap lock and the userspace access. Retry if anything grabbed an mmap write
lock in between and could have changed the VMA.
These mmap_lock_speculate_...() helpers use mm::mm_lock_seq, which is only
available when PER_VMA_LOCK is configured. So make X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
depend on it. On x86, PER_VMA_LOCK is a default configuration for SMP
kernels. So drop support for the other configs under the assumption that
the !SMP shadow stack user base does not exist.
Currently there is a check that skips the lookup work when the SSP can be
assumed to be on a shadow stack. While reorganizing the function, remove
the optimization to make the tricky code flows more common, such that
issues like this cannot escape detection for so long.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ibmasm: fix heap over-read in ibmasm_send_i2o_message()
The ibmasm_send_i2o_message() function uses get_dot_command_size() to
compute the byte count for memcpy_toio(), but this value is derived from
user-controlled fields in the dot_command_header (command_size: u8,
data_size: u16) and is never validated against the actual allocation size.
A root user can write a small buffer with inflated header fields, causing
memcpy_toio() to read up to ~65 KB past the end of the allocation into
adjacent kernel heap, which is then forwarded to the service processor
over MMIO.
Silently clamping the copy size is not sufficient: if the header fields
claim a larger size than the buffer, the SP receives a dot command whose
own header is inconsistent with the I2O message length, which can cause
the SP to desynchronize. Reject such commands outright by returning
failure.
Validate command_size before calling get_mfa_inbound() to avoid leaking
an I2O message frame: reading INBOUND_QUEUE_PORT dequeues a hardware
frame from the controller's free pool, and returning without a
corresponding set_mfa_inbound() call would permanently exhaust it.
Additionally, clamp command_size to I2O_COMMAND_SIZE before the
memcpy_toio() so the MMIO write stays within the I2O message frame,
consistent with the clamping already performed by outgoing_message_size()
for the header field.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
selinux: fix overlayfs mmap() and mprotect() access checks
The existing SELinux security model for overlayfs is to allow access if
the current task is able to access the top level file (the "user" file)
and the mounter's credentials are sufficient to access the lower
level file (the "backing" file). Unfortunately, the current code does
not properly enforce these access controls for both mmap() and mprotect()
operations on overlayfs filesystems.
This patch makes use of the newly created security_mmap_backing_file()
LSM hook to provide the missing backing file enforcement for mmap()
operations, and leverages the backing file API and new LSM blob to
provide the necessary information to properly enforce the mprotect()
access controls.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: Fix string overrun due to missing termination
When booting Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0-rc4 on an ARM64 Qualcomm
Snapdragon X1 we see a string buffer overrun:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in aa_dfa_match (security/apparmor/match.c:535)
Read of size 1 at addr ffff0008901cc000 by task snap-update-ns/2120
CPU: 5 UID: 60578 PID: 2120 Comm: snap-update-ns Not tainted 7.0.0-rc4+ #22 PREEMPTLAZY
Hardware name: LENOVO 83ED/LNVNB161216, BIOS NHCN60WW 09/11/2025
Call trace:
show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:501) (C)
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597)
__asan_report_load1_noabort (mm/kasan/report_generic.c:378)
aa_dfa_match (security/apparmor/match.c:535)
match_mnt_path_str (security/apparmor/mount.c:244 security/apparmor/mount.c:336)
match_mnt (security/apparmor/mount.c:371)
aa_bind_mount (security/apparmor/mount.c:447 (discriminator 4))
apparmor_sb_mount (security/apparmor/lsm.c:719 (discriminator 1))
security_sb_mount (security/security.c:1062 (discriminator 31))
path_mount (fs/namespace.c:4101)
__arm64_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:4172 fs/namespace.c:4361 fs/namespace.c:4338 fs/namespace.c:4338)
invoke_syscall.constprop.0 (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49)
el0_svc_common.constprop.0 (./include/linux/thread_info.h:142 (discriminator 2) arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140 (discriminator 2))
do_el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:152)
el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:725)
el0t_64_sync_handler (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744)
el0t_64_sync (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:596)
Allocated by task 2120:
kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:58)
kasan_save_track (./arch/arm64/include/asm/current.h:19 mm/kasan/common.c:70 mm/kasan/common.c:79)
kasan_save_alloc_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:571)
__kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:419)
__kmalloc_noprof (./include/linux/kasan.h:263 mm/slub.c:5260 mm/slub.c:5272)
aa_get_buffer (security/apparmor/lsm.c:2201)
aa_bind_mount (security/apparmor/mount.c:442)
apparmor_sb_mount (security/apparmor/lsm.c:719 (discriminator 1))
security_sb_mount (security/security.c:1062 (discriminator 31))
path_mount (fs/namespace.c:4101)
__arm64_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:4172 fs/namespace.c:4361 fs/namespace.c:4338 fs/namespace.c:4338)
invoke_syscall.constprop.0 (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49)
el0_svc_common.constprop.0 (./include/linux/thread_info.h:142 (discriminator 2) arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140 (discriminator 2))
do_el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:152)
el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:725)
el0t_64_sync_handler (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744)
el0t_64_sync (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:596)
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff0008901ca000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-rnd-06-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 8192-byte region [ffff0008901ca000, ffff0008901cc000)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x9101c8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:-1 pincount:0
flags: 0x8000000000000040(head|zone=2)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 8000000000000040 ffff000800016c40 fffffdffe2d14e10 ffff000800015c70
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 8000000000000040 ffff000800016c40 fffffdffe2d14e10 ffff000800015c70
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 8000000000000003 fffffdffe2407201 fffffdffffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff0008901cbf00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff0008
---truncated---
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_event: fix potential UAF in SSP passkey handlers
hci_conn lookup and field access must be covered by hdev lock in
hci_user_passkey_notify_evt() and hci_keypress_notify_evt(), otherwise
the connection can be freed concurrently.
Extend the hci_dev_lock critical section to cover all conn usage in both
handlers.
Keep the existing keypress notification behavior unchanged by routing
the early exits through a common unlock path.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
landlock: Fix LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF inheritance across fork()
hook_cred_transfer() only copies the Landlock security blob when the
source credential has a domain. This is inconsistent with
landlock_restrict_self() which can set LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF on a
credential without creating a domain (via the ruleset_fd=-1 path): the
field is committed but not preserved across fork() because the child's
prepare_creds() calls hook_cred_transfer() which skips the copy when
domain is NULL.
This breaks the documented use case where a process mutes subdomain logs
before forking sandboxed children: the children lose the muting and
their domains produce unexpected audit records.
Fix this by unconditionally copying the Landlock credential blob.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: amphion: Fix race between m2m job_abort and device_run
Fix kernel panic caused by race condition where v4l2_m2m_ctx_release()
frees m2m_ctx while v4l2_m2m_try_run() is about to call device_run
with the same context.
Race sequence:
v4l2_m2m_try_run(): v4l2_m2m_ctx_release():
lock/unlock v4l2_m2m_cancel_job()
job_abort()
v4l2_m2m_job_finish()
kfree(m2m_ctx) <- frees ctx
device_run() <- use-after-free crash at 0x538
Crash trace:
Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address
0000000000000538
v4l2_m2m_try_run+0x78/0x138
v4l2_m2m_device_run_work+0x14/0x20
The amphion vpu driver does not rely on the m2m framework's device_run
callback to perform encode/decode operations.
Fix the race by preventing m2m framework job scheduling entirely:
- Add job_ready callback returning 0 (no jobs ready for m2m framework)
- Remove job_abort callback to avoid the race condition