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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97594"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:10.548Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:22.513Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97594"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97594.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97594"
title: "landlock: Fix use-after-free of the source's parent directory"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlandlock: Fix use-after-free of the source's parent directory\n\ncurrent_check_refer_path() reads old_dentry-\u003ed_parent without holding a\nreference nor a lock on it, and then dereferences it in\ncollect_domain_accesses() and in the audit record.\n\nA reference on a child does not pin its parent: __d_move() reassigns\ndentry-\u003ed_parent and drops the reference the child held on its former\nparent.  hook_path_rename() is not affected because the rename path\ncalls lock_rename() before the hook, so the source cannot be reparented\nunder it.  hook_path_link() has no such protection: filename_linkat()\nholds a reference on the source dentry but neither locks nor references\nits parent, so a concurrent rename(2) can reparent the source while\nsecurity_path_link() runs, and the former parent can then be removed and\nfreed while the hook walks it.\n\nA process can trigger this after entering a Landlock domain that handles\nat least one filesystem access right.  The process can then race a\nlinkat(2) loop against rename(2) and rmdir(2):\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in collect_domain_accesses+0x278/0x290\n  Read of size 4 at addr ffff888160bd53f4 by task llrepro2/549\n   collect_domain_accesses+0x278/0x290\n   current_check_refer_path+0x952/0x1120\n   security_path_link+0x1be/0x320\n   filename_linkat+0x342/0x6d0\n   __x64_sys_linkat+0xfa/0x150\n  Freed by task 562:\n   kmem_cache_free+0x139/0x4c0\n   i_callback+0x4b/0x80\n   rcu_core+0x7dc/0x10a0\n\nTake a reference on the dentry selected as the source parent, using\ndget() for the common-mount-root case and dget_parent() otherwise.\nRelease it after the hierarchy walk and synchronous audit logging.\n\n[mic: Clarify the caller, reachability, and reference handling]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48fc1c74052c956c59d5b16b5e18e0dd36b76aa2"},{"version":"b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c37992b9668c4f37aae41dd95c369f7b6009915"},{"version":"b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"379efd2ce8b26fd35feb13ccc2f671ff105a5052"},{"version":"b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba29c46ccfe3ebadfb8aa18149186c49f84b14f8"},{"version":"b91c3e4ea756b12b7d992529226edce1cfd854d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c6dc792538260a8087ac5b22c31b3b8e47c85d6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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