Bug 2560866 (CVE-2026-99096) - CVE-2026-99096 kernel: io_uring/register: don't exempt disabled rings from task restrictions
Summary: CVE-2026-99096 kernel: io_uring/register: don't exempt disabled rings from ta...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99096
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-26 15:20 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 06:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-26 15:20:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/register: don't exempt disabled rings from task restrictions

A ring created with IORING_SETUP_R_DISABLED is exempt from its register
restrictions until it is enabled. This lets the creator register the
restrictions and then enable the ring with IORING_REGISTER_ENABLE_RINGS,
whether or not that opcode is in the allowed set.

Since commit ed82f35b926b ("io_uring: allow registration of per-task
restrictions"), a ring also inherits restrictions from the task that
creates it, and the same exemption applies to those. A task whose
register opcodes are restricted can therefore create a disabled ring,
issue any register opcode on it, and then enable it.

Mark rings whose restrictions were inherited from the task, and keep
checking register opcodes for them while the ring is disabled. Enabling
such a ring now requires IORING_REGISTER_ENABLE_RINGS to be in the
task's allowed set. Per-ring restrictions registered on a disabled ring
work as before.

[axboe: amend with inheritance flag fixup]


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