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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-64065

| EUVDEUVD-2026-45638 MEDIUM
2026-07-19 Linux GHSA-23r9-pmc9-fcx4
Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat Suse
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
vuln.today AI
4.7 MEDIUM

Race condition requires specific Ceph+netfs mount and concurrent write load, warranting AC:H over the vendor's AC:L; all other metrics align with provided vector.

3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative
Red Hat
5.5 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

6
Metadata Corrected
Sep 03, 2026 - 18:40 vuln.today
tag: Information Disclosure replaced by Denial Of Service
Analysis Generated
Sep 03, 2026 - 17:52 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Sep 03, 2026 - 15:37 NVD
5.5 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Jul 19, 2026 - 17:03 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 19, 2026 - 15:39 nvd
MEDIUM 5.5
CVE Published
Jul 19, 2026 - 15:39 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionNVD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: fix VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO() issue in netfs_write_begin() call

The multiple runs of generic/013 test-case is capable to reproduce a kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1504 with probability of 30%.

while true; do sudo ./check generic/013 done

[ 9849.452376] page: refcount:3 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000e58ff252 index:0x10781 pfn:0x1c322 [ 9849.452412] memcg:ffff8881a1915800 [ 9849.452417] aops:ceph_aops ino:1000058db9e dentry name(?):"f9XXXXXX" [ 9849.452432] flags: 0x17ffffc0000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) [ 9849.452441] raw: 0017ffffc0000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff88816110d248 [ 9849.452445] raw: 0000000000010781 0000000000000000 00000003ffffffff ffff8881a1915800 [ 9849.452447] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio)) [ 9849.452474] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 9849.452476] kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1504! [ 9849.478635] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI [ 9849.481772] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 84223 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1+ #18 PREEMPT(full) [ 9849.482881] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-9.fc43 06/1 0/2025 [ 9849.484539] RIP: 0010:folio_unlock+0x85/0xa0 [ 9849.485076] Code: 89 df 31 f6 e8 1c f3 ff ff 48 8b 5d f8 c9 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc 48 c7 c6 80 6c d9 a7 48 89 df e8 4b b3 10 00 <0f> 0b 48 89 df e8 21 e6 2c 00 eb 9d 0f 1f 40 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 [ 9849.493818] RSP: 0018:ffff8881bb8076b0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 9849.495740] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea00070c8980 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 9849.498678] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 9849.500559] RBP: ffff8881bb8076b8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 9849.501097] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000010782000 [ 9849.502108] R13: ffff8881935de738 R14: ffff88816110d010 R15: 0000000000001000 [ 9849.502516] FS: 00007e36cbe94740(0000) GS:ffff88824a899000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 9849.502996] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 9849.503810] CR2: 000000c0002b0000 CR3: 000000011bbf6004 CR4: 0000000000772ef0 [ 9849.504459] PKRU: 55555554 [ 9849.504626] Call Trace: [ 9849.505242] <TASK> [ 9849.505379] netfs_write_begin+0x7c8/0x10a0 [ 9849.505877] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 [ 9849.506384] ? __pfx_netfs_write_begin+0x10/0x10 [ 9849.507178] ceph_write_begin+0x8c/0x1c0 [ 9849.507934] generic_perform_write+0x391/0x8f0 [ 9849.508503] ? __pfx_generic_perform_write+0x10/0x10 [ 9849.509062] ? file_update_time_flags+0x19a/0x4b0 [ 9849.509581] ? ceph_get_caps+0x63/0xf0 [ 9849.510259] ? ceph_get_caps+0x63/0xf0 [ 9849.510530] ceph_write_iter+0xe79/0x1ae0 [ 9849.511282] ? __pfx_ceph_write_iter+0x10/0x10 [ 9849.511839] ? lock_acquire+0x1ad/0x310 [ 9849.512334] ? ksys_write+0xf9/0x230 [ 9849.512582] ? lock_is_held_type+0xaa/0x140 [ 9849.513128] vfs_write+0x512/0x1110 [ 9849.513634] ? __fget_files+0x33/0x350 [ 9849.513893] ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10 [ 9849.514143] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x30 [ 9849.514394] ksys_write+0xf9/0x230 [ 9849.514621] ? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10 [ 9849.514887] ? do_syscall_64+0x25e/0x1520 [ 9849.515122] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 [ 9849.515366] ? trace_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x178/0x1c0 [ 9849.515655] __x64_sys_write+0x72/0xd0 [ 9849.515885] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x24/0x1c0 [ 9849.516130] x64_sys_call+0x22f/0x2390 [ 9849.516341] do_syscall_64+0x12b/0x1520 [ 9849.516545] ? do_syscall_64+0x27c/0x1520 [ 9849.516783] ? do_syscall_64+0x27c/0x1520 [ 9849.517003] ? lock_release+0x318/0x480 [ 9849.517220] ? __x64_sys_io_getevents+0x143/0x2d0 [ 9849.517479] ? percpu_ref_put_many.constprop.0+0x8f/0x210 [ 9849.517779] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 9849.518073] ? do_syscall_64+0x25e/0x1520 [ 9849.518291] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 [ 9849.518519] ? trace_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x178/0x1c0 [ 9849.518799] ? do_syscall_64+0x27c/0x1520 [ 9 ---truncated---

AnalysisAI

Kernel panic (BUG) in the Linux netfs subsystem's netfs_write_begin() function causes local denial of service when a folio is unlocked without holding the lock, triggering the VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio)) assertion at mm/filemap.c:1504. The defect surfaces under concurrent write workloads on Ceph-backed filesystems using the netfs layer - the generic/013 xfstests case reproduces it with approximately 30% probability per run. A local, low-privileged user who can write to a Ceph mount can crash the kernel; no confidentiality or integrity impact is observed. No public exploit code exists and EPSS stands at 0.17% (6th percentile), consistent with a race-condition DoS confined to specific filesystem configurations.

Technical ContextAI

The Linux netfs layer (net/fs/write_begin.c) provides a generic write-begin path reused by network filesystems such as Ceph. During write operations the path acquires a folio lock, but a race condition allows netfs_write_begin() to reach folio_unlock() on a folio that is not actually locked - violating the kernel's mandatory invariant enforced by VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio)) in mm/filemap.c line 1504. The kernel then BUGs with an invalid-opcode trap (#UD, Oops code 0000). The CWE field is listed as N/A, but the root cause is a concurrency/locking defect (conceptually CWE-667, Improper Locking). Affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux across the 6.12, 6.18, and 7.0 stable branches up to the respective fix commits.

RemediationAI

The primary fix is to update to a patched Linux kernel version: 6.12.92 or later for the 6.12.x stable series, 6.18.34 or later for the 6.18.x series, 7.0.11 or later for the 7.0.x series, or any 7.1+ mainline build containing commit dc7832d05deb4d632e8035e3299e31a3528fa0d0. Kernel.org stable patches are at https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51ffb788f074c0a61953086f49008028c1e7b645 (6.12), https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b63971238beb79cf701dac33c6cefc56c07c89fa (6.18), and https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ad05b6f5df296ef046589f222bb2587495b991e (7.0). Ubuntu users should apply USN-8593-1 packages via apt. Until patching is possible, operators can mitigate by restricting local user write access to Ceph-mounted filesystems (e.g., via filesystem ACLs or limiting which users can mount Ceph volumes), accepting the trade-off of reduced functionality for affected workloads. There is no configuration knob to disable the netfs write path selectively without removing Ceph write capability entirely.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Not-Affected
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