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CVE-2026-64596 (GCVE-0-2026-64596)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-06 07:13 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:58
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Title
libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() Since commit 1e7ab6f67824 ("anon_inode: rework assertions"), path_noexec() warns when an anonymous-inode file is mmap'd from a superblock that has not set SB_I_NOEXEC. dma-buf backs its files this way and never set the flag, so mmap of any exported buffer trips the warning on a CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS=y kernel: WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 121813 at fs/exec.c:118 path_noexec+0x47/0x50 do_mmap+0x2b5/0x680 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x129/0x210 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x177/0x240 __x64_sys_mmap+0x33/0x70 init_pseudo() sets up internal SB_NOUSER mounts that are never path-reachable. Set both flags here so every pseudo filesystem gets them by default instead of each caller setting them. SB_I_NODEV is inert for unreachable mounts. SB_I_NOEXEC has one visible effect: an executable mapping of a pseudo-fs fd, such as a dma-buf, now fails with -EPERM, which is the invariant the assertion enforces. No in-tree caller maps these executable. Reproduce on CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS=y: make -C tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps sudo ./tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap -t system
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1e7ab6f67824343ee3e96f100f0937c393749a8a , < b9d45d328fcda4f0d3d281b7d6f12d3f181d9381 (git)
Affected: 1e7ab6f67824343ee3e96f100f0937c393749a8a , < 8e931557b317f0fb414839fa51fae1d5feb0ad97 (git)
Affected: 1e7ab6f67824343ee3e96f100f0937c393749a8a , < 6de2aeffabaafaeda819e60ec8d04f199711e11a (git)
Affected: 9b8076a9404568d6cb6673b9a079558b15051966 (git)
Affected: 6.15.6 , < 6.16 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.39 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.4 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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