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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89996" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:08.620Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:22.023Z" 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-2026-89996" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89996.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89996" title: "dma-buf: dma-heap: don't publish fd before copy_to_user() succeeds" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndma-buf: dma-heap: don't publish fd before copy_to_user() succeeds\n\nDMA_HEAP_IOCTL_ALLOC allocates a dma-buf and installs an fd into the\ncaller's fd table via dma_buf_fd() -\u003e fd_install() before\ndma_heap_ioctl() copies the result back to userspace. If the trailing\ncopy_to_user() fails, userspace never learns the fd number, but the\nfd (and the underlying dma-buf reference) are already visible to\nother threads in the same process and are leaked for the lifetime of\nthe process.\n\nThe obvious \"close it on the failure path\" fix is unsafe: once\nfd_install() has run, another thread can already dup() the fd, send\nit via SCM_RIGHTS, or close() it and let its number be reused, so a\nsubsequent close_fd() from the ioctl path can operate on an unrelated\nfile. This was pointed out by Christian König on v1 [1].\n\nRestructure the allocation path so that fd_install() is the last,\nunfailable step of a successful ioctl:\n\n 1. heap-\u003eops-\u003eallocate() creates the dma_buf.\n 2. get_unused_fd_flags() reserves an fd number in the caller's\n fd table without publishing it, so\n no other thread can observe it.\n 3. copy_to_user() delivers the fd number to userspace;\n on failure the fd is returned with\n put_unused_fd() and the dma_buf\n reference is dropped with\n dma_buf_put(), leaving no user-\n visible state behind.\n 4. dma_buf_fd_install() publishes the fd and emits the\n trace_dma_buf_fd tracepoint -- from\n here on the ioctl cannot fail.\n\nA new dma_buf_fd_install() helper is introduced in dma-buf.c to wrap\nfd_install() together with the DMA_BUF_TRACE() call, preserving the\nexport tracing that dma_buf_fd() provides. dma_heap_ioctl_allocate()\nis refactored to return the struct dma_buf * directly (returning\nERR_PTR on failure) so the caller holds the dmabuf reference across\nsteps 3 and 4.\n\nThe failure at step 3 is easily reachable from userspace: pass a\nstruct dma_heap_allocation_data that lives in a page whose protection\nis flipped to PROT_READ between copy_from_user() and copy_to_user()\n(e.g. via mprotect()). Before this change each such ioctl leaks one\ndmabuf fd; after it, the fd table is unchanged on failure and only\n/dev/dma_heap/\u003cname\u003e remains open.\n\nNo UAPI or heap-driver interface change.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/175e98de-f414-47d7-81c1-c0fe0a8f7f62@amd.com/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c02a81fba74fe3488ad6b08bfb5a1329005418f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad61defb3e66ac0c598ad6f39b57f15784543d46"},{"version":"c02a81fba74fe3488ad6b08bfb5a1329005418f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1bf6083a41f810d760c4dcd1b80c5194a92575aa"},{"version":"c02a81fba74fe3488ad6b08bfb5a1329005418f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69d57dbadb27ffd5eef34fd184bab145500cdabc"},{"version":"c02a81fba74fe3488ad6b08bfb5a1329005418f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d4a5d218055db29b50cc07d3d73d27007c2a391"},{"version":"c02a81fba74fe3488ad6b08bfb5a1329005418f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30d0aff2c65a277135cfd8ea28fa1ee75e0ea4e0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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