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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90139" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:37.179Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:58:37.328Z" 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-2026-90139" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90139.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90139" title: "fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount\n\nfuse_iget() can return NULL when its inode allocation fails, but\nfuse_fill_super_submount() passed the result straight to get_fuse_inode()\nand decremented fi-\u003enlookup without checking it:\n\n root = fuse_iget(sb, parent_fi-\u003enodeid, ...);\n fi = get_fuse_inode(root);\n fi-\u003enlookup--;\n\nInside fuse_iget() the inode allocation can fail and return NULL. The\nsubmount root takes the iget5_locked() path, whose alloc_inode() can fail\nunder memory pressure (the auto-submount branch can fail the same way in\nnew_inode() or fuse_alloc_submount_lookup()):\n\n inode = iget5_locked(sb, nodeid, fuse_inode_eq, fuse_inode_set,\n &nodeid);\n if (!inode)\n return NULL;\n\nA NULL root makes get_fuse_inode() a container_of() on NULL and the\nnlookup decrement a write to a bogus address, oopsing the mount. With\nCONFIG_KASAN the following null pointer dereference is reported when the\nroot inode allocation of an auto-submount fails (e.g. under memory\npressure):\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in fuse_get_tree_submount+0x656/0x8b0\nRead of size 8 at addr 00000000000002b0 by task ls/942\nCPU: 0 PID: 942 Comm: ls Tainted: G W 6.6 #15\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n fuse_get_tree_submount+0x656/0x8b0\n vfs_get_tree+0x48/0x140\n fc_mount+0x13/0x50\n fuse_dentry_automount+0x7a/0xb0\n __traverse_mounts+0xca/0x330\n step_into+0x339/0xac0\n path_lookupat+0xc5/0x2f0\n filename_lookup+0x163/0x2a0\n vfs_statx+0xd5/0x200\n do_statx+0x83/0xd0\n __x64_sys_statx+0xa0/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n==================================================================\n\nReturn -ENOMEM instead; the caller tears down the partially built\nsuperblock on error, matching the other error returns in this\nfunction." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1866d779d5d2abae59d304e809600ca3ca8d0071","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17120c5bfb16808509ea18d7fab6027802d93eba"},{"version":"1866d779d5d2abae59d304e809600ca3ca8d0071","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0b7f2922f6bd4c23cbddb7d1fc2bada570d27d1"},{"version":"1866d779d5d2abae59d304e809600ca3ca8d0071","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5129155ca9fba40d77ff19ffead8244e88d6f9c"},{"version":"1866d779d5d2abae59d304e809600ca3ca8d0071","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"509f4a09bae7f03c87f67f053648874a5e177867"},{"version":"1866d779d5d2abae59d304e809600ca3ca8d0071","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"928f659a3e3650978a5b4829cc982324f72b474b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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