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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68455"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:16.745Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:05:55.589Z"
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-2026-68455"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68455.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68455"
title: "liveupdate: validate session type before performing operation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nliveupdate: validate session type before performing operation\n\nThe sessions ioctls are not applicable to all session types. PRESERVE_FD\nis only applicable to outgoing sessions. RETRIEVE_FD and FINISH are only\nvalid for incoming session. Calling a incoming ioctl on an outgoing\nsession is invalid and can cause file handlers to run into unexpected\nerrors.\n\nFor example, a user can create a (outgoing) session, preserve a memfd,\nand then immediately do a retrieve without doing a kexec in between.\nThis would result in memfd's retrieve handler to run. The handlers\nexpects to be called from a post-kexec context, and will try to do a\nkho_restore_vmalloc() or kho_restore_folio() to try and restore memory.\n\nKHO catches this (thanks to KHO_PAGE_MAGIC) and returns an error, but\nsince this is considered an internal error and KHO throws out a bunch of\nWARN()s.\n\nAssociate a type with each ioctl op and validate the type in\nluo_session_ioctl() before dispatching the ioctl handler to make sure\nthe op is being called for the right session type."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"16cec0d265219f14a7fcebcc43aeb69205adba56","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3dc8a46d08a8a060d4128e9f497060b8d03c1595"},{"version":"16cec0d265219f14a7fcebcc43aeb69205adba56","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"507e3b479f9c6d85135eb5e1a77fb3fddb259ad8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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