CVE-2026-89489 Affecting linux-6.12 package, versions <6.12.111-1~deb12u1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LINUX612-20506531
  • published5 Oct 2026
  • disclosed11 Sept 2026

Introduced: 11 Sep 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 linux-6.12 to version 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.12 package and not the linux-6.12 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscall

sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written assembly.

l.lwz   r29,0(r4)
l.lwz   r27,0(r5)
l.sw    0(r4),r27
l.sw    0(r5),r29

The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory accesses also have no exception table entries.

A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall reads from and writes to it directly.

This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code execution in kernel context.

Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user addresses return -EFAULT.

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