Unscored severity · published Oct 28, 2026
CVE-2026-99169
futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED
New
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CVSS
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EPSS
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On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED
A FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex is a shared futex that refers to an MM.
It is possible for a process to wait on a shared futex with a different MM
because a FUT_OFF_INODE waiter can be requeued onto a FUT_OFF_MMSHARED
futex by another process.
This can cause FUT_OFF_MMSHARED waiters on a freed MM to consume
wakeups intended for a newly allocated MM at the same address.
Fix it by keying FUT_OFF_MMSHARED using a unique 64-bit per-MM ID.
Leave private futexes as before to avoid influencing the performance of the
hotpath.
(Multi-threaded processes typically implicitly use FUT_OFF_MMSHARED by
setting clear_child_tid such that it points into anonymous memory, which
causes mm_release() in a multi-threaded mm to perform FUTEX_WAKE.)
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d before c17cc2027773e8e4913c5ab0fe3a489b1ed5bf81; 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d before 2855ddc6844f527e375e78afb55ec2a5182f23b3; 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d before 3267512ad1c2cc0c7768c5b014dc2cceb398a801; 5.7 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-99169
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99169
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c17cc2027773e8e4913c5ab0fe3a489b1ed5bf81
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2855ddc6844f527e375e78afb55ec2a5182f23b3
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3267512ad1c2cc0c7768c5b014dc2cceb398a801
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