CVE-2026-68166

userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs

N/A
Published: August 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM UTC
Updated: August 23, 2026 at 01:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs Vova Tokarev says: userfaultfd allows registration on shadow stack VMAs. With userfaultfd access, you can register on the shadow stack, discard a page ... and inject a page with chosen return addresses via UFFDIO_COPY. Update vma_can_userfault() to reject VM_SHADOW_STACK. While on it, also reject VM_SPECIAL so that if a driver would implement vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register special VMAs with userfaultfd. Since VM_SPECIAL includes VM_DONTEXPAND which is set but hugetlb, exclude hugetlb VMAs from the check for VM_SPECIAL.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.6 ≤ v < 6.12.1056.6 ≤ v < 6.18.446.6 ≤ v < 6.6.1536.6 ≤ v < 7.1.66.6 ≤ v < 7.254007f818206dc27309ca423df4c87dd160a72086.6
Vendor states this is fixed in 0c26202b157f1efc3cd2f26f5c30f59b508a6a5d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 165613191ad9d034bf17c00e3a142f9561597ec5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3c58f641e813c3c71039f8fd4d4e2a3aab713288 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 495a28d5a100be1b232633f4c2dcc42ba10b3796 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d974b4b786214883bd8e56bda10b454c80fd6205 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.105 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.44 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.153 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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