An unprivileged attacker can craft a user-space process with a malicious ELF binary containing an out-of-range sh_link field. When root-level dtrace attaches to -- or instruments -- that process (via dtrace -p , pid probes, or USDT), the ELF parser reads heap memory beyond the allocated section cache array without any bounds check. This results in an uninitialized/out-of-bounds heap read that can cause a NULL pointer dereference crash of the dtrace process (DoS), or -- depending on heap layout -- a read-then-use of a garbage pointer controlled by adjacent allocations, providing a foothold toward further exploitation in a privileged context.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2026-35233.html Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.4 · oracleNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 3
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:9:0:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:10:0:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 1
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2026-35233.html Vendor Advisory