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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98923"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:03:28.027Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:05:45.179Z"
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-2026-98923"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98923.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98923"
title: "arm64: io: Reject non-user protection in ioremap_prot()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64: io: Reject non-user protection in ioremap_prot()\n\nMapping a stack-top page via /dev/mem with PROT_NONE and then\nreading that process's /proc/\u003cpid\u003e/cmdline triggers a spurious WARN\nin ioremap_prot() through generic_access_phys():\n\n  WARNING: ./arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h:275 at generic_access_phys\n  Call trace:\n    generic_access_phys+0x1c8/0x228 (P)\n    __access_remote_vm+0x2b4/0x398\n    access_remote_vm+0x14/0x30\n    get_mm_cmdline+0xf8/0x2a0\n    proc_pid_cmdline_read+0x68/0x120\n\ngeneric_access_phys() passes the protection derived from the user PTE\nto ioremap_prot(). On arm64, a PROT_NONE mapping is represented by a\npresent-invalid PTE, so pte_present() still returns true and the\nprotection reaches ioremap_prot().\n\nA PROT_NONE mapping does not have PTE_USER, causing the existing\nWARN_ON_ONCE() in ioremap_prot() to fire even though this is a valid\nuser mapping. Execute-only mappings have the same issue and must not\nbe readable through this path either.\n\nioremap_prot() should therefore reject protection values without\nPTE_USER without warning. This makes the access fail cleanly for\nPROT_NONE and execute-only mappings while retaining the existing\nuser-protection contract."
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