CVE-2026-98281

HIGH
7.8CVSS v3
—CVSS v2
0.14% EPSS (exploit probability)
—CWE

Description

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

futex: Also allocate private hash on vfork()

As Jann demonstrated, it is entirely feasible to access the mm through vfork().
Therefore we need to allocate a private hash on vfork() as well as any other
CLONE_VM user.

Specifically, it must be avoided to have (private) futex waiters before
allocating the private hash.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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