CVE-2026-43178
procfs: fix possible double mmput() in do_procmap_query()
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
06 May 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
procfs: fix possible double mmput() in do_procmap_query()
When user provides incorrectly sized buffer for build ID for PROCMAP_QUERY
we return with -ENAMETOOLONG error. After recent changes this condition
happens later, after we unlocked mmap_lock/per-VMA lock and did mmput(),
so original goto out is now wrong and will double-mmput() mm_struct. Fix
by jumping further to clean up only vm_file and name_buf.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43178https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467227https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61dc9f776705d6db6847c101b98fa4f0e9eb6fa3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8adaff87db143583e08eec4f4e7788f1ef8af94dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f5e87c9b75833b9ef3a4415b92c0247f28ab2fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9fe092084cd04deea18747f58a2304026e76aaahttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-43178.json