Bug 2565266 (CVE-2026-99226) - CVE-2026-99226 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via use-after-free in named keyring lookup
Summary: CVE-2026-99226 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via use-after-free in named ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99226
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-02 16:43 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-04 10:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-02 16:43:05 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup

Named keyring lookup must keep the storage containing the owner UID
alive through the namespace mapping check.  find_keyring_by_name()
reads keyring->user->uid under keyring_name_lock, but that lock protects
the keyring's name entry and allocation, not its separate key_user.

A named session-keyring join can overlap a privileged KEYCTL_CHOWN on
another CPU.  If the keyring holds the last reference to its old dynamic
key_user and the ownership transfer succeeds, the following ordering is
possible:

    Named join                         Chown
    find_keyring_by_name()              keyctl_chown_key()
      read_lock(keyring_name_lock)       down_write(key->sem)
      load old keyring->user
                                         replace key->user and key->uid
                                         up_write(key->sem)
                                         key_put(key)
                                         key_user_put(old user): free
      read old user->uid
      read_unlock(keyring_name_lock)

Chown neither takes keyring_name_lock nor key_session_mutex, so it can
free the old account between the pointer load and the UID read.  The
lookup then reads freed memory even though the keyring itself is alive.

Use keyring->uid for the mapping check.  key_alloc() initializes this
inline owner UID and keyctl_chown_key() updates it on chown.
The existing name lock keeps its containing keyring allocated throughout
the check, so lookup no longer depends on the account's lifetime.  This
also matches the owner UID used by the permission check.

KASAN report as below:

    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_keyring_by_name+0x577/0x5d0
    Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881128ae2ec by task keycase/500


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