# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64371"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:23.981Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:23:38.736Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64371"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64371.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64371"
title: "proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nproc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)\n\nFix the easy cases where procfs currently calls ptrace_may_access() without\nexec_update_lock protection, where the fix is to simply add the extra lock\nor use mm_access():\n\n - do_task_stat(): grab exec_update_lock\n - proc_pid_wchan(): grab exec_update_lock\n - proc_map_files_lookup(): use mm_access() instead of get_task_mm()\n - proc_map_files_readdir(): use mm_access() instead of get_task_mm()\n - proc_ns_get_link(): grab exec_update_lock\n - proc_ns_readlink(): grab exec_update_lock"
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