landlock: Fix use-after-free of the source's parent directory
CVE-2026-97594 · published 25 Sept 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 to < 48fc1c74052c956c59d5b16b5e18e0dd36b76aa2, b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 to < 4c37992b9668c4f37aae41dd95c369f7b6009915, b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 to < 379efd2ce8b26fd35feb13ccc2f671ff105a5052, b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7 to < ba29c46ccfe3ebadfb8aa18149186c49f84b14f8
- Linux Linux: 5.19
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
landlock: Fix use-after-free of the source's parent directory
current_check_refer_path() reads old_dentry->d_parent without holding a
reference nor a lock on it, and then dereferences it in
collect_domain_accesses() and in the audit record.
A reference on a child does not pin its parent: __d_move() reassigns
dentry->d_parent and drops the reference the child held on its former
parent. hook_path_rename() is not affected because the rename path
calls lock_rename() before the hook, so the source cannot be reparented
under it. hook_path_link() has no such protection: filename_linkat()
holds a reference on the source dentry but neither locks nor references
its parent, so a concurrent rename(2) can reparent the source while
security_path_link() runs, and the former parent can then be removed and
freed while the hook walks it.
A process can trigger this after entering a Landlock domain that handles
at least one filesystem access right. The process can then race a
linkat(2) loop against rename(2) and rmdir(2):
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in collect_domain_accesses+0x278/0x290
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888160bd53f4 by task llrepro2/549
collect_domain_accesses+0x278/0x290
current_check_refer_path+0x952/0x1120
security_path_link+0x1be/0x320
filename_linkat+0x342/0x6d0
__x64_sys_linkat+0xfa/0x150
Freed by task 562:
kmem_cache_free+0x139/0x4c0
i_callback+0x4b/0x80
rcu_core+0x7dc/0x10a0
Take a reference on the dentry selected as the source parent, using
dget() for the common-mount-root case and dget_parent() otherwise.
Release it after the hierarchy walk and synchronous audit logging.
[mic: Clarify the caller, reachability, and reference handling]
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/48fc1c74052c956c59d5b16b5e18e0dd36b76aa2
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c37992b9668c4f37aae41dd95c369f7b6009915
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/379efd2ce8b26fd35feb13ccc2f671ff105a5052
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba29c46ccfe3ebadfb8aa18149186c49f84b14f8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c6dc792538260a8087ac5b22c31b3b8e47c85d6
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