Bug 2568494 (CVE-2026-73860) - CVE-2026-73860 criu: criu: Privilege escalation via restartable sequence hijacking
Summary: CVE-2026-73860 criu: criu: Privilege escalation via restartable sequence hija...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-73860
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-06 20:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-06 20:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-06 20:21:24 UTC
CRIU is a checkpoint and restore tool for Linux. Prior to 4.2.1, CRIU injects a syscall;int3 sequence at the start of the first executable virtual memory area and resumes the target process to execute parasite code. Malicious code in the target process can keep an rseq critical section armed over that injection point so the kernel's restartable-sequence abort redirects execution to an attacker-controlled callback when CRIU resumes the process. In container snapshot environments, the hijacked parasite runs with seccomp disabled and a relaxed AppArmor profile and supplies trusted data to the privileged CRIU process, which can enable higher-privilege code execution. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.


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