UBUNTU-CVE-2026-52923: High severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: limit nextid allocation to the valid ID range The checkpoint/restore sysctl path can request the next SysV IPC id through ids->nextid. ipcidralloc() currently forwards that request to idralloc() with an open-ended upper bound. If the valid tail of the SysV IPC id space is full, the allocation can spill beyond ipcmni. The returned SysV IPC id still uses the normal index encoding, so later lookup and removal can target the wrong slot. This leaves the real IDR entry behind and breaks the IDR state for the object. The bug is in ipcidralloc() in the checkpoint/restore path. 1. ids->nextid is passed to: idralloc(&ids->ipcsidr, new, ipcidtoidx(nextid), 0, ...) 2. The zero upper bound makes the allocation effectively open-ended. Once the valid SysV IPC tail is occupied, idralloc() can spill past ipcmni and allocate an entry beyond the valid IPC id range. 3. The new object id is still encoded with the narrower SysV IPC index width: new->id = (new->seq << ipcmniseqshift()) + idx 4. Later removal goes through ipcrmid(), which uses: ipcidtoidx(ipcp->id) That truncates the real IDR index. An object actually stored at a high index can then be removed as if it lived at a low in-range index. 5. For shared memory, shmdestroy() frees the current object anyway, but the real high IDR slot is left behind as a dangling pointer. 6. A subsequent walk of /proc/sysvipc/shm reaches the stale IDR entry and dereferences freed memory. Prevent this by bounding the requested allocation to ipcmni so the checkpoint/restore path fails once the valid range is exhausted.