CVE-2026-72379 (GCVE-0-2026-72379)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:13
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Title
fs: refuse O_TMPFILE creation with an unmapped fsuid or fsgid
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: refuse O_TMPFILE creation with an unmapped fsuid or fsgid vfs_tmpfile() never checked that the caller's fsuid and fsgid map into the filesystem. On an idmapped mount whose idmapping does not cover the caller's fs{u,g}id, the ->tmpfile() instance initializes the new inode through inode_init_owner(), where mapped_fsuid()/mapped_fsgid() return INVALID_UID/INVALID_GID, and the tmpfile ends up owned by (uid_t)-1. Every other creation path already refuses this: may_o_create() (O_CREAT) and may_create_dentry() (mkdir, mknod, symlink, link) bail out with -EOVERFLOW via fsuidgid_has_mapping() precisely so that an object cannot be created with an owner the filesystem cannot represent. An O_TMPFILE is no exception: it is created I_LINKABLE and linkat(2) can splice it into the namespace afterwards, so the same guarantee must hold. Add the missing fsuidgid_has_mapping() check to vfs_tmpfile(). On a non-idmapped mount the caller's fs{u,g}id always map in the superblock's user namespace, so this is a no-op there and only takes effect on an idmapped mount that does not map the caller. It applies to every filesystem that sets FS_ALLOW_IDMAP and implements ->tmpfile() (tmpfs, ext4, btrfs, xfs, f2fs, ...), and to overlayfs, whose upper-layer tmpfile creation funnels through vfs_tmpfile() via backing_tmpfile_open().
Severity
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 , < bac8fb0d60254846f3b56957435dcd870ae12948 (git)
Affected: 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 , < 503d0568a525b168d9aa5ca046ec72fc5477df84 (git)
Affected: 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 , < a2038514e69371eb493083a6a897ed20fcbb8acb (git)
Affected: 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 , < 47e434da476b5a8bcd1e6e52ab03c5ee7764ee78 (git)
Affected: 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 , < 539dce1144651f7976fa418e618b0b574bf15eeb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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