High severity · published Oct 23, 2026
CVE-2026-99051
fsverity: RCU-delay the freeing of struct fsverity_info
New
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fsverity: RCU-delay the freeing of struct fsverity_info
__fsverity_get_info() calls rhashtable_lookup_fast(), which just uses
rcu_read_lock() and doesn't directly synchronize with
fsverity_remove_info().
For the same inode this isn't a problem: its fsverity_info is removed
only at inode eviction time or upon failure to enable verity, when the
inode no longer needs its fsverity_info and it will no longer be
accessed via that inode.
However, this is broken and can cause a use-after-free for concurrent
__fsverity_get_info() for *different* inodes. Those rely on following
fsverity_info::rhash_head in the rhashtable under rcu_read_lock() only.
They also use fsverity_info::inode to do the key comparison.
Fix this by RCU-delaying the freeing of 'struct fsverity_info' after
it's been removed from the rhashtable.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 4% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
f77f281b61183a5c0b87e6a4d101c70bd32c1c79 before fa84f091a8e7fc46fd29834496fab9739dd4c8dc; f77f281b61183a5c0b87e6a4d101c70bd32c1c79 before e58c3805ed325fe2d4ae2dd467c0486cc860b733; 7.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-99051
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99051
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e58c3805ed325fe2d4ae2dd467c0486cc860b733
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa84f091a8e7fc46fd29834496fab9739dd4c8dc
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