UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-90303
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9485/1: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_pte() for user faults When CONFIG_DEB
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ARM: 9485/1: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_pte() for user faults
When CONFIG_DEBUG_USER=y, and cmdline "user_debug=31" is set,
a user fault may trigger show_pte() without any lock.
If another thread in the same process concurrently calls munmap(),
the page table pages may be freed while show_pte() is still traversing
them, causing a use-after-free in show_pte().
If CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y, this may cause a kernel panic if the pages table
of PMD are freed when show_pte() is running.
Acquire mmap_write_lock() around show_pte() for user faults to fix the
contention.
For user faults, additionally restrict that show_pte() is called only
when the addr is a user-space address (addr < TASK_SIZE). This is because
the lock of tsk->mm only protects the virtual memory of user address space,
furthermore, dumping the page tables of a kernel-space address for user
faults is unnecessary and may have security implications.
Keep everything unchanged for kernel faults, because the kernel is
already in the "oops" state, acquiring a lock may risk a deadlock.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e4d5380f2a844ab7a1b440dde350caf561cbb0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1039bffd6ae9c75b42b7d148d6c1106134107b66
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a14d7797a49a47bccd1a9327fd69da838dcb0dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59bbf86d0ff9373bfa033ca123c1e924f09f1eba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63e3c958a602d0896a101a897c2361878c266ca7
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-17 via NVD.
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