CVE-2026-93073 Affecting kernel-tools-devel package, versions <1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023
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- published13 Oct 2026
- disclosed17 Sept 2026
Introduced: 17 Sep 2026
NewCVE-2026-93073 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-tools-devel to version 1:6.1.188-233.385.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2026-3197.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-devel package and not the kernel-tools-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dax: read holder_ops once in dax_holder_notify_failure()
dax_holder_notify_failure() reads dax_dev->holder_ops twice without READ_ONCE() -- once for the NULL check and once for the indirect notify_failure() call. A concurrent fs_put_dax() can clear holder_ops between the two reads, so the check can observe a non-NULL pointer while the call dereferences NULL. (kill_dax() also clears holder_ops, but only after synchronize_srcu(), so it cannot race a reader that is inside dax_read_lock(); fs_put_dax() does no such synchronization.)
Fetch holder_ops once into a local with READ_ONCE() so the NULL check and the indirect call observe the same value.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-93073
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a42180d5410c98829ee72d1d426fb7faf9e6873
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1661b9bf78def01a8c96409569772d9b2592f4ba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a37acecc7c29136235cbc446a1b89e81414344b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae9d15bdcde0f2955ae13b6a95587f9e23b2359
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb412f80311fc7ab6eb3203091a3fe59a5e9fd30
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1251621d1c7cf3155c6704542cbb358d799968