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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43472" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:22:31.556Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:25:16.258Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-43472" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43472.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43472" title: "unshare: fix unshare_fs() handling" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nunshare: fix unshare_fs() handling\n\nThere's an unpleasant corner case in unshare(2), when we have a\nCLONE_NEWNS in flags and current-\u003efs hadn't been shared at all; in that\ncase copy_mnt_ns() gets passed current-\u003efs instead of a private copy,\nwhich causes interesting warts in proof of correctness]\n\n\u003e I guess if private means fs-\u003eusers == 1, the condition could still be true.\n\nUnfortunately, it's worse than just a convoluted proof of correctness.\nConsider the case when we have CLONE_NEWCGROUP in addition to CLONE_NEWNS\n(and current-\u003efs-\u003eusers == 1).\n\nWe pass current-\u003efs to copy_mnt_ns(), all right. Suppose it succeeds and\nflips current-\u003efs-\u003e{pwd,root} to corresponding locations in the new namespace.\nNow we proceed to copy_cgroup_ns(), which fails (e.g. with -ENOMEM).\nWe call put_mnt_ns() on the namespace created by copy_mnt_ns(), it's\ndestroyed and its mount tree is dissolved, but... current-\u003efs-\u003eroot and\ncurrent-\u003efs-\u003epwd are both left pointing to now detached mounts.\n\nThey are pinning those, so it's not a UAF, but it leaves the calling\nprocess with unshare(2) failing with -ENOMEM _and_ leaving it with\npwd and root on detached isolated mounts. The last part is clearly a bug.\n\nThere is other fun related to that mess (races with pivot_root(), including\nthe one between pivot_root() and fork(), of all things), but this one\nis easy to isolate and fix - treat CLONE_NEWNS as \"allocate a new\nfs_struct even if it hadn't been shared in the first place\". Sure, we could\ngo for something like \"if both CLONE_NEWNS *and* one of the things that might\nend up failing after copy_mnt_ns() call in create_new_namespaces() are set,\nforce allocation of new fs_struct\", but let's keep it simple - the cost\nof copy_fs_struct() is trivial.\n\nAnother benefit is that copy_mnt_ns() with CLONE_NEWNS *always* gets\na freshly allocated fs_struct, yet to be attached to anything. That\nseriously simplifies the analysis...\n\nFWIW, that bug had been there since the introduction of unshare(2) ;-/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"845bf3c6963a52096d0d3866e4a92db77a0c03d8"},{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3ffc8f13034af895531a02c30b1fe3a34b46432"},{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0d99f60538ddb4a62ccaac2168d8f448965f083"},{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7963d6997fea86a6def242ac36198b86655f912"},{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa9ebc084505fb26dd90f4d7a249045aad152043"},{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af8f4be3b68ac8caa41c8e5ead0eeaf5e85e42d0"},{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42e21e74061b0ebbd859839f81acf10efad02a27"},{"version":"741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c4b2243cb6c0755159bd567130d5e12e7b10d9f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.16"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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