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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98980" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:53.838Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:53.838Z" 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-2026-98980" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98980.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98980" title: "namei: don't reveal overmounted entries in refwalk" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnamei: don't reveal overmounted entries in refwalk\n\nIn rcuwalk the dentry is validated before it is accepted. step_into()\nstep_into() rechecks d_seq and __follow_mount_rcu() rechecks mount_lock.\nAn entry that gets unlinked in between causes the lookup to retry and\nmiss.\n\nA refwalk doesn't do this. lookup_fast() takes a reference on the hashed\ndentry and simply accepts it. So an unlink that happens after the\nreference was taken isn't seen by refwalk. That's fine for a simple\nfile. We just happened to open it before it was unlinked, no problem.\n\nFor a mountpoint and specifically a locked mountpoint it very much\nisn't. The unlink detaches all mounts and then removes the name. Any\nrefwalk that hasn't traversed the mounts yet simply reveals the\nunderlying entry. It's a very narrow window but it can be hit:\n\n reads of a covered file in 60 s, 3 walkers, ~15000 unlinks\n no widening 27\n that step + 200 us 3741\n\nSee the appended patch for a more reliable reproducer.\n\nSo check the entry after step_into(). unlink(), rmdir() and rename()\nmark the dentry with dont_mount() before they detach the mounts and\nremove the dentry.\n\nSo a dentry that is marked with DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT and is unhashed by the\ntime its mounts were looked at is a name that was unlinked under the\nrefwalk. DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT is read after the mounts were looked up and\nit is set before they are detached by detach_mounts(). A refwalk that\nmissed the mounts will see DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT.\n\nPlain d_unlinked() is fine. A rename takes the dentry off its hash chain\nbut ___d_drop() leaves d_hash.pprev set. So only __d_drop() and a rename\nover the dentry unhash it. The only move that flips IS_ROOT splices in a\ndisconnected alias. That doesn't have DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT set.\n\nAdd the to step_into_slowpath(). \"..\" and LOOKUP_DOWN may legitimately\nland on an unhashed directory. A refwalk that crossed onto a mount has\npath.mnt different from nd-\u003epath.mnt. A dentry that a filesystem dropped\non its own (d_invalidate(), d_drop()) doesn't have the flag set and is\ntreated as before.\n\n // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0\n /*\n * unlink_covered: unlink a file that is a mountpoint in a detached copy of\n * its mount, against walkers that open it through that copy.\n *\n * A is a tmpfs with the file f1 (content SECRET_F) and the plain file\n * MARK_A. A' is an open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE) copy of A with MARK_A bound\n * on A'/f1, held through an O_PATH fd on its root once the tree fd is\n * closed. Walkers open f1 through that fd while the driver unlinks A/f1,\n * where nothing is mounted on it. A walker may read MARK_A or get ENOENT.\n * A read of SECRET_F is a hit: the name was found after its mount was\n * gone. The lockless walks use openat2(RESOLVE_CACHED).\n *\n * usage: unlink_covered [-t seconds] [-w walkers]\n */\n #ifndef _GNU_SOURCE\n #define _GNU_SOURCE\n #endif\n #include \u003cerrno.h\u003e\n #include \u003cfcntl.h\u003e\n #include \u003cpthread.h\u003e\n #include \u003cstdatomic.h\u003e\n #include \u003cstdio.h\u003e\n #include \u003cstdlib.h\u003e\n #include \u003cstring.h\u003e\n #include \u003cunistd.h\u003e\n #include \u003csys/mount.h\u003e\n #include \u003csys/stat.h\u003e\n #include \u003csys/syscall.h\u003e\n #include \u003clinux/openat2.h\u003e\n\n #ifndef __NR_open_tree\n #define __NR_open_tree 428\n #endif\n #ifndef __NR_move_mount\n #define __NR_move_mount 429\n #endif\n #ifndef __NR_openat2\n #define __NR_openat2 437\n #endif\n #ifndef OPEN_TREE_CLONE\n #define OPEN_TREE_CLONE 1\n #endif\n #ifndef OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC\n #define OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC\n #endif\n #ifndef MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH\n #define MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH 0x00000004\n #endif\n\n #define WORK \"/tmp/uc\"\n #define ADIR WORK \"/A\"\n\n static int duration = 60, nwalkers = 3;\n static atomic_int stop, writer_waiting;\n static pthread_rwlock_t cur_lock = PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER;\n static int cur_fd = -1;\t\t/* the root of A', -1 while there is none */\n static atomic_long n_unlink, n_walk, n_mark, n_enoent, n_othe\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8ed936b5671bfb33d89bc60bdcc7cf0470ba52fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2b10181d913b4efa3a8dc67a532f859aa5f95e0"},{"version":"8ed936b5671bfb33d89bc60bdcc7cf0470ba52fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f97df8ca7fadf5b53954f50073445ba193902c0"},{"version":"8ed936b5671bfb33d89bc60bdcc7cf0470ba52fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b43ff2deef48260bfbdc0dcb520f7929bd3e4007"},{"version":"8ed936b5671bfb33d89bc60bdcc7cf0470ba52fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8189ab688f5a2c745dc90b63374da02f213d6994"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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