# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64375"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:26.869Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:38:25.420Z"
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-2026-64375"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64375.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64375"
title: "proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links)"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nproc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links)\n\nproc_pid_get_link() and proc_pid_readlink() currently look up the task from\nthe pid once, then do the ptrace access check on that task, then look up\nthe task from the pid a second time to do the actual access.\nThat's racy in several ways.\n\nTo fix it, pass the task to the -\u003eproc_get_link() handler, and instead of\nproc_fd_access_allowed(), introduce a new helper call_proc_get_link() that\nlooks up and locks the task, does the access check, and calls\n-\u003eproc_get_link()."
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