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CVE-2026-98862

audit: fix exe mark UAF in kill_rules() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: fix exe mark UAF in kill_rules() kill_rules() removes mixed AUDIT_DIR and AUDIT_EXE rules when an audit tree is pruned. It drops entry->rule.exe before removing the rule from the RCU-visible filter lists. After a rule has been installed with AUDIT_ADD_RULE, which requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL, removing the watched directory can race with another task that is still evaluating the rule. In that case, fsnotify can free the executable mark before the reader reaches audit_mark_compare(), causing a use-after-free. KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in audit_mark_compare+0x8d/0xa0 Unlink the published rules from the RCU-visible lists and retain them on tree->rules for cleanup. If any rule has an executable mark, wait for a single RCU grace period before removing the marks and scheduling the entries for freeing. Otherwise, call_rcu() already provides the required deferred freeing without a synchronous wait.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc before 9aee3caeff4dd4126d84f67607b95cec8719b867; affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc before 304960900991157e6883bdf0b39782b690545ee8; affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc before 88633025f20ba9c32ccdb3efc86eafdf98cb825c; affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc before f2cc5462b78559c7628a9f8ac9a9592e7783183a; affected 34d99af52ad40bd498ba66970579a5bc1fb1a3bc before aa650d87a498844060eecb1d336f4d46f4d1b0b3
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.3; unaffected 0 before 4.3; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.113 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.56 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.10 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

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