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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93191" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:12:15.765Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:03.807Z" 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-2026-93191" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93191.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93191" title: "smack: fix incorrect task context in smack_msg_queue_msgrcv" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmack: fix incorrect task context in smack_msg_queue_msgrcv\n\nThe smack_msg_queue_msgrcv() function incorrectly checks\nthe permissions of the 'current' task instead of the\n'target' task.\n\nIn the msgsnd() syscall path, if a receiver is already waiting,\nthe pipelined_send() optimization is used to push the message\ndirectly to the receiver task:\n\n ipc/msg.c`pipelined_send():\n ` smp_store_release(&msr-\u003er_msg, msg)\n\nIn this case, the 'sender' (current) task performs the check\non behalf of the 'receiver' task (msr-\u003er_tsk, passed as the\n'target' parameter):\n\n ipc/msg.c`pipelined_send():\n ` security_msg_queue_msgrcv(,, target := msr-\u003er_tsk,,)\n\nHowever, smack_msg_queue_msgrcv() ignores the 'target' and\nchecks 'current':\n\n smack_msg_queue_msgrcv(…)\n ` smk_curacc_msq(isp, MAY_READWRITE); // current task\n\n'current' MAY satisfy smack_msg_queue_msgrcv r/w requirement,\nbut 'target' (the receiver task) might NOT;\nas a result, an unauthorized receiver gets the message,\nviolating MAC policy.\n\nTest:\n1) create a sysv message queue with label “foo”\n2) echo \"bar foo r\" \u003e/smack/load2\n3) msgrcv(,,,0,MSG_NOERROR) in \"bar\"-labeled task.\n The task is waiting for the messages ...\n4) msgsnd() from a \"foo\"-labeled task:\n\"bar\"-labeled task gets the message.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by checking permission on the\n'target' task instead of 'current'.\n\n(2008-02-04, Casey Schaufler)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e49f997ef0c569e09b42aab6bd38c7c54ea095d"},{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbece6c2f80b0470d8d99d7a016827dce99ed6e3"},{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7be4bd21c50afa83c93799b0f16cf5bfa493194e"},{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec47f4177046dfaaf1cebb15f4d2e7b543475daf"},{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e35dc5a4ed6d1e536382d80c685187511ff248a1"},{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2ab27c2e11591524b1378c24ad18882a425d1fa"},{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d02c55e3ea82e41ea2c2026e08201e5daa4d0cfe"},{"version":"e114e473771c848c3cfec05f0123e70f1cdbdc99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fba3d32825f4bbc8e20f0cdc3b14df57965b8fe5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.25","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.25"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"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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