Answer in brief
CVE-2026-80775 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in futex: Fix race on the initial mm->futex.phash.ref allocation. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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A CVSS score is not reported in the current record. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=d9b05321e21e4b218de4ce8a590bf375f58b6346 <86d12b34bafc9a4c271a9edefea88855a934d6e5 || >=d9b05321e21e4b218de4ce8a590bf375f58b6346 <ff252ed45c8263525f2f54d81c5fa6d547fba344 || >=d9b05321e21e4b218de4ce8a590bf375f58b6346 <c4b4972d8edcdf50b6518f55119e129d2f668a10 || >=d9b05321e21e4b218de4ce8a590bf375f58b6346 <bde0238083647381d4747355c5a19115a3422b96 | 86d12b34bafc9a4c271a9edefea88855a934d6e5, ff252ed45c8263525f2f54d81c5fa6d547fba344, c4b4972d8edcdf50b6518f55119e129d2f668a10, bde0238083647381d4747355c5a19115a3422b96 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.17 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 4, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 4, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 4, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: futex: Fix race on the initial mm->futex.phash.ref allocation futex_hash_allocate() allocates mm->futex.phash.ref without any locking. Commit d9b05321e21e ("futex: Move futex_hash_free() back to __mmput()") moved the allocation here and assumed that the process has just a single thread at this point. Commit ee9dce44362b ("futex: Drop CLONE_THREAD requirement for private default hash alloc") widened need_futex_hash_allocate_default() to cover any CLONE_VM clone, but left out vfork because the parent is suspended and cannot race. That no longer holds once vfork is nested. If a vfork child calls vfork again and is then killed with SIGKILL, the parent is released from its vfork wait and runs concurrently with the grandchild in the same mm. Neither of them went through futex_hash_allocate_default(). When both call prctl(PR_FUTEX_HASH, PR_FUTEX_HASH_SET_SLOTS) at the same time, each one sees mm->futex.phash.ref as NULL and stores its own percpu counter. Only the last store survives. The counter stored first is no longer reachable from the mm, so the references on it are not seen by __futex_ref_atomic_end(). A private hash that still has references is then considered dead and freed, and a task that still holds one of its buckets writes into freed memory in futex_q_lock(). Store the counter once with cmpxchg() and let the loser free_percpu() its own. The initial reference has to be taken before the store, otherwise another task can install a private hash while the counter is still 0.
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