In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fscrypt: Add missing superblock check in find_or_insert_direct_key() The legacy 'fscrypt_direct_keys' table caches master keys that are used by v1 encryption policies that have FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY. It's just a global table for all filesystems (since the keys can be provided by the legacy process-subscribed keyrings mechanism, which makes it difficult to reuse super_block::s_master_keys). The entries in it ('struct fscrypt_direct_key') do contain a super_block pointer, though, for passing to fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() when the last inode that references the key is evicted. However, when finding the fscrypt_direct_key for an inode, we weren't actually comparing the super_block pointer. As a result, inodes with different super_blocks could point to the same fscrypt_direct_key. That could extend the lifetime of a fscrypt_direct_key beyond the super_block it points to, causing a use-after-free later. Fix this by creating distinct fscrypt_direct_key structs for distinct super_block structs. Note that this problem doesn't exist in the v2 policy equivalent ("per-mode keys"), since the data structures there are per super_block.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 3
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 20:58
- CwesCWE-416NVD modified 2026-10-19 21:17
- First seenCVSS 7.8NVD modified 2026-10-16 16:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/330249609b70778094a7a36f5b6bcfa6362121d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/466f187b501a5ac8e1ea2ccf3ccd5c46108d8830
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95376fe9c145be35566991df99c53134943d992f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965b5bc8cf5031225e057979ce660fec2bd5fbfc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5fa40226e71c17847b9ff2816c6ca4133d0d994
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deff41898a5ae3a47db5fa1896a494aa95efda5d