Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.10,6.12.110)[6.13,6.18.51)[6.19,7.2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20823262
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed16 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-89990  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.110, 6.18.51, 7.2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the ceph_mds_check_access function. An attacker can cause arbitrary kernel memory read and write, as well as potential code execution or denial of service, by triggering concurrent session reopen operations that free and replace the s_cap_auths array while it is being traversed. This can be exploited remotely by sending crafted CEPH_SESSION_OPEN messages or through NFS/SMB clients accessing CephFS exports.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1