{"cve":"CVE-2026-64294","nvd":{"published":"2026-07-25T10:17:10.160","modified":"2026-08-23T13:16:31.680","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: do file ownership checks with the proper mount idmap\n\nEver since idmapped mounts were introduced, inode ownership checks (for\nside-channel protection) in mincore() and madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) were done\nagainst the nop_mnt_idmap, which completely ignores the file's mount's\nidmap.  This results in odd edgecases like:\n\n1) mount/bind-mount with an idmap userA:userB:1\n2) userB runs an owner_or_capable() check on file that is owned by userA\non-disk/in-memory, but owned by userB after idmap translation\n3) owner_or_capable() mysteriously fails as the correct idmap wasn't supplied\n\nIn the case of mincore/madvise MADV_PAGEOUT, this is usually benign,\nbecause file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE) will probably succeed, as it uses\nthe proper idmap internally, but it does not need to be the case on e.g a\n0444 file where even the owner itself doesn't have permissions to write to\nit.\n\nSince this is clearly not trivial to get right, introduce a\nfile_owner_or_capable() that can carry the correct semantics, and switch\nthe various users in mm to it.\n\nThe issue was found by manual code inspection & an off-list discussion\nwith Jan Kara.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04ba248d02d9eaa3d9077b00a6134caa75fa3e90","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c942ad7df75925ee166e7f0fb36892d8dde376b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7368bec565bac3e536cd43579dbde1e715e6ba61","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/744b23aa430d52f5c8e4dbff7d71496d6643bed2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8344bdf0629457e532797b42d9d2bbf2a2900bbf"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:46:40.600842820+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-64294","score":0.0016,"percentile":0.05149,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}