CVE-2026-68455

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: liveupdate: validate session type before performing operation The sessions ioctls are not applicable to all session types. PRESERVE_FD is only applicable to outgoing sessions. RETRIEVE_FD and FINISH are only valid for incoming session. Calling a incoming ioctl on an outgoing session is invalid and can cause file handlers to run into unexpected errors. For example, a user can create a (outgoing) session, preserve a memfd, and then immediately do a retrieve without doing a kexec in between. This would result in memfd's retrieve handler to run. The handlers expects to be called from a post-kexec context, and will try to do a kho_restore_vmalloc() or kho_restore_folio() to try and restore memory. KHO catches this (thanks to KHO_PAGE_MAGIC) and returns an error, but since this is considered an internal error and KHO throws out a bunch of WARN()s. Associate a type with each ioctl op and validate the type in luo_session_ioctl() before dispatching the ioctl handler to make sure the op is being called for the right session type.

CVSS

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References

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dc8a46d08a8a060d4128e9f497060b8d03c1595
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/507e3b479f9c6d85135eb5e1a77fb3fddb259ad8

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Information

Published : 2026-08-15 06:17

Updated : 2026-08-17 06:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-68455

Mitre link : CVE-2026-68455

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-68455

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CWE

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