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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23415"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-02T11:40:56.476Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:43.155Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23415"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23415.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23415"
title: "futex: Fix UaF between futex_key_to_node_opt() and vma_replace_policy()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfutex: Fix UaF between futex_key_to_node_opt() and vma_replace_policy()\n\nDuring futex_key_to_node_opt() execution, vma-\u003evm_policy is read under\nspeculative mmap lock and RCU. Concurrently, mbind() may call\nvma_replace_policy() which frees the old mempolicy immediately via\nkmem_cache_free().\n\nThis creates a race where __futex_key_to_node() dereferences a freed\nmempolicy pointer, causing a use-after-free read of mpol-\u003emode.\n\n[  151.412631] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __futex_key_to_node (kernel/futex/core.c:349)\n[  151.414046] Read of size 2 at addr ffff888001c49634 by task e/87\n\n[  151.415969] Call Trace:\n\n[  151.416732]  __asan_load2 (mm/kasan/generic.c:271)\n[  151.416777]  __futex_key_to_node (kernel/futex/core.c:349)\n[  151.416822]  get_futex_key (kernel/futex/core.c:374 kernel/futex/core.c:386 kernel/futex/core.c:593)\n\nFix by adding rcu to __mpol_put()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c042c505210dc3453f378df432c10fff3d471bc5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"853f70c67d1b37e368fdcb3e328c4b8c04f53ac0"},{"version":"c042c505210dc3453f378df432c10fff3d471bc5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e196194ea27bd49adf3551e2aceb83498eb73fe"},{"version":"c042c505210dc3453f378df432c10fff3d471bc5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"190a8c48ff623c3d67cb295b4536a660db2012aa"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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