CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2026-43178
High (7.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
procfs: fix possible double mmput() in do_procmap_query()
When user provides incorrectly sized buffer for build ID for PROCMAP_QUERY
we return with -ENAMETOOLONG error. After recent changes this condition
happens later, after we unlocked mmap_lock/per-VMA lock and did mmput(),
so original goto out is now wrong and will double-mmput() mm_struct. Fix
by jumping further to clean up only vm_file and name_buf.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-415, CWE-1341
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61dc9f776705d6db6847c101b98fa4f0e9eb6fa3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8adaff87db143583e08eec4f4e7788f1ef8af94d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f5e87c9b75833b9ef3a4415b92c0247f28ab2f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9fe092084cd04deea18747f58a2304026e76aaa
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43178