CVE-2026-90094

arm64: process: Fix context switching MTE store-only tag check

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Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:06 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:18 AM 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: arm64: process: Fix context switching MTE store-only tag check SCTLR_EL1.TCSO0 is set when user opt-in for MTE store-only tag check mode. However, it is not part of SCTLR_USER_MASK which imply that on context switch we never clear SCTLR_EL1.TCSO0, so we are leaking that setting into another task. Fix that by including SCTLR_EL1_TCSO0_MASK into SCTLR_USER_MASK

Affected

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

4d51ff5bba00a13ca9b0b24883fa7adb07a167fc6.17
Vendor states this is fixed in 00a73ce437e27fdc636a5ede445a4a491e01788d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2f10bc3ff24c91657887901c3235b803e5055f2b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b8f070ac3167595069feb1f794c127b805115645 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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