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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89766"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:47:06.597Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:19.816Z"
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-2026-89766"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89766.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89766"
title: "pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl\n\nThe PIDFD_GET_*_NAMESPACE ioctls in pidfd_ioctl() perform a filesystem\ncredentials ptrace access check before handing out a namespace file\ndescriptor.  The accompanying comment states that the code \"mirrors nsfs\nbehavior\", but, unlike the corresponding procfs paths, it does so without\nholding the target task's exec_update_lock.\n\nproc_ns_get_link() and proc_ns_readlink() both take exec_update_lock for\nreading around the ptrace check and the namespace lookup, so that the\ncredentials used for the access decision match those of the task when its\nnamespace is read.  Without it, a caller can pass the check against the\ntarget's old credentials and then read the namespace after the target has\nexecve()'d a setuid binary and committed new credentials -- accessing\nnamespace information it should have been denied.\n\nHold exec_update_lock for reading around the ptrace check and the\nnamespace lookup so that pidfd truly mirrors nsfs behavior, as the comment\nalready claims.  open_namespace() itself runs outside the lock: once a\nnamespace reference is obtained it carries its own refcount and is opened\nwith the caller's own credentials, so a concurrent execve() on the target\ncan no longer affect the outcome."
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