DEBIAN-CVE-2026-99169: Debian/linux vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUTOFFMMSHARED A FUTOFFMMSHARED 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 FUTOFFINODE waiter can be requeued onto a FUTOFFMMSHARED futex by another process. This can cause FUTOFFMMSHARED waiters on a freed MM to consume wakeups intended for a newly allocated MM at the same address. Fix it by keying FUTOFFMMSHARED 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 FUTOFFMMSHARED by setting clearchildtid such that it points into anonymous memory, which causes mmrelease() in a multi-threaded mm to perform FUTEXWAKE.)
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Compensating control
Key FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futexes using a unique 64-bit per-MM ID, while leaving private futex handling unchanged.