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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43178"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:27:51.524Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:26:20.039Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43178"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43178.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43178"
title: "procfs: fix possible double mmput() in do_procmap_query()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nprocfs: fix possible double mmput() in do_procmap_query()\n\nWhen user provides incorrectly sized buffer for build ID for PROCMAP_QUERY\nwe return with -ENAMETOOLONG error.  After recent changes this condition\nhappens later, after we unlocked mmap_lock/per-VMA lock and did mmput(),\nso original goto out is now wrong and will double-mmput() mm_struct.  Fix\nby jumping further to clean up only vm_file and name_buf."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b9b97e6aeb534315f9646b2090d1a5024c6a4e82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9fe092084cd04deea18747f58a2304026e76aaa"},{"version":"cbc03ce3e6ce7e21214c3f02218213574c1a2d08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8adaff87db143583e08eec4f4e7788f1ef8af94d"},{"version":"b5cbacd7f86f4f62b8813688c8e73be94e8e1951","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90f5e87c9b75833b9ef3a4415b92c0247f28ab2f"},{"version":"b5cbacd7f86f4f62b8813688c8e73be94e8e1951","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61dc9f776705d6db6847c101b98fa4f0e9eb6fa3"},{"version":"6.12.70","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.75"},{"version":"6.18.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.6","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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