Bug 2513167 (CVE-2026-68166) - CVE-2026-68166 kernel: Linux kernel: Arbitrary code execution via userfaultfd shadow stack manipulation
Summary: CVE-2026-68166 kernel: Linux kernel: Arbitrary code execution via userfaultfd...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68166
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-13 15:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:22:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs

Vova Tokarev says:

  userfaultfd allows registration on shadow stack VMAs.  With userfaultfd
  access, you can register on the shadow stack, discard a page ... and
  inject a page with chosen return addresses via UFFDIO_COPY.

Update vma_can_userfault() to reject VM_SHADOW_STACK.

While on it, also reject VM_SPECIAL so that if a driver would implement
vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register special VMAs with
userfaultfd.

Since VM_SPECIAL includes VM_DONTEXPAND which is set but hugetlb, exclude
hugetlb VMAs from the check for VM_SPECIAL.


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