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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89600"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:03.450Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:49:32.566Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89600"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89600.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89600"
title: "fanotify: fix use-after-free of file range info"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfanotify: fix use-after-free of file range info\n\nfsnotify_pre_content() builds its file_range on the triggering task's\nstack. fanotify_alloc_perm_event() saves a pointer to range.pos in the\nheap-allocated permission event so copy_range_info_to_user() can report\nthe offset later.\n\nThe event reader can set the event state to FAN_EVENT_REPORTED and then\nsleep while preparing the file descriptor. If a signal interrupts the\ntriggering task at that point, fanotify_get_response() changes the state\nto FAN_EVENT_CANCELED and returns. This unwinds the file_range stack\nframe while the reader still owns the event. The reader then dereferences\npevent-\u003eppos and copies the stale stack value to userspace.\n\nKASAN reported:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in fanotify_read+0x293e/0x2970\n  Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811434fc50 by task fanotify_inotif/95\n  Call Trace:\n   fanotify_read+0x293e/0x2970\n   vfs_read+0x177/0xa20\n   ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0\n   do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nStore the range position directly in the permission event and use\nFANOTIFY_NO_RANGE when range information is unavailable. The event remains\nalive until the reader finishes, so the reported offset no longer depends\non the triggering task's stack."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"870499bc1d4dc04cba1f63dd5e7bc02b983e2458","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66aa9a9e6481bfa512ee5b6380eaaec455a954d2"},{"version":"870499bc1d4dc04cba1f63dd5e7bc02b983e2458","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8f73b163b646bc56d4dce9c697a578e333f4894"},{"version":"870499bc1d4dc04cba1f63dd5e7bc02b983e2458","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7f1cf5be33ef0175a4e8ed8687aeb98fb00a851"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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