CVE-2026-90303

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9485/1: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_pte() for user faults When CONFIG_DEBUG_USER=y, and cmdline "user_debug=31" is set, a user fault may trigger show_pte() without any lock. If another thread in the same process concurrently calls munmap(), the page table pages may be freed while show_pte() is still traversing them, causing a use-after-free in show_pte(). If CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y, this may cause a kernel panic if the pages table of PMD are freed when show_pte() is running. Acquire mmap_write_lock() around show_pte() for user faults to fix the contention. For user faults, additionally restrict that show_pte() is called only when the addr is a user-space address (addr < TASK_SIZE). This is because the lock of tsk->mm only protects the virtual memory of user address space, furthermore, dumping the page tables of a kernel-space address for user faults is unnecessary and may have security implications. Keep everything unchanged for kernel faults, because the kernel is already in the "oops" state, acquiring a lock may risk a deadlock.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71f9a56520b419e55d173052629f2324deb5549

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab14f07952adfe735d86a53518f8cd576dfd5892

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/720408d98d9fb3c91a12090436734c8c61f04545

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63e3c958a602d0896a101a897c2361878c266ca7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59bbf86d0ff9373bfa033ca123c1e924f09f1eba

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a14d7797a49a47bccd1a9327fd69da838dcb0dd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1039bffd6ae9c75b42b7d148d6c1106134107b66

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e4d5380f2a844ab7a1b440dde350caf561cbb0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0021