CVE-2026-99169
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED A FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex is a shared futex that refers to an MM. It is possible for a process to wait on a shared futex with a different MM because a FUT_OFF_INODE waiter can be requeued onto a FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex by another process. This can cause FUT_OFF_MMSHARED waiters on a freed MM to consume wakeups intended for a newly allocated MM at the same address. Fix it by keying FUT_OFF_MMSHARED using a unique 64-bit per-MM ID. Leave private futexes as before to avoid influencing the performance of the hotpath. (Multi-threaded processes typically implicitly use FUT_OFF_MMSHARED by setting clear_child_tid such that it points into anonymous memory, which causes mm_release() in a multi-threaded mm to perform FUTEX_WAKE.)
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- Last source
- NVD
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-28T11:39:10.768721+00:00
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-99169
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-28T11:40:10+00:00
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-28T11:40:10+00:00
- Published at
- 2026-10-28T11:17:37.403
- Last modified
- 2026-10-28T11:17:37.403
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