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"cveId": "CVE-2026-80929",
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"state": "PUBLISHED",
"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2026-08-26T14:34:25.802Z",
"datePublished": "2026-09-11T19:42:04.778Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:45:13.127Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsysctl: move the \"cad_pid\" entry from pid_table[] to kern_reboot_table[]\n\ncad_pid is global, and kill_cad_pid() is only used in the root namespace.\n\nHowever, due to pid_table_root_permissions(), a non-root user can unshare\npid/user namespaces and modify it from the child namespace. This makes no\nsense and is simply wrong.\n\nMove it to kern_reboot_table[] where it logically belongs; this ensures\nthat only GLOBAL_ROOT_UID can read/modify this sysctl.\n\nNote that this patch doesn't preserve \"#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL\" around\nthe \"cad_pid\"; CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL selects CONFIG_SYSCTL, so it is always\nset when kern_reboot_table[] is compiled."
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"value": "AV:L - Unprivileged local processes reach proc_do_cad_pid() by opening and writing /proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid after creating user and PID namespaces; this is a procfs sysctl syscall path, not a network, adjacent-wireless, or physical-device handler.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls namespace creation and concurrent sysctl reads/writes of the shared global cad_pid pointer, so the proc_do_cad_pid() use-after-free race does not depend on victim state, rare configs, or other conditions outside attacker influence.\nPR:L - pid_table_root_permissions() treats CAP_SYS_ADMIN or uid 0 in the PID namespace's user namespace as owner of the 0600 cad_pid sysctl, which an unprivileged user obtains by unsharing user and PID namespaces rather than needing init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the flaw entirely through their own unshare, proc mount, and read/write of kernel.cad_pid; no other user must press Ctrl-Alt-Del, mount a filesystem, or take any action.\nS:U - Successful exploitation corrupts host kernel memory and hijacks the global cad_pid used by kill_cad_pid(); this remains inside the kernel's security authority and is not a VM, IOMMU, or DMA boundary bypass.\nC:H - Racing a cad_pid sysctl write (put_pid of the last reference) against a sysctl read use-after-frees struct pid in pid_vnr()/pid_nr_ns(), which per kernel CVSS guidance provides an arbitrary kernel-read primitive via slab reuse.\nI:H - The same use-after-free of struct pid is exploitable for heap spraying and control-flow hijack of kernel PID/signal paths, and the write also replaces host-global cad_pid so privileged kernel SIGINT/SIGPWR are redirected away from init.\nA:H - The use-after-free produces a kernel oops or panic on the pid_nr_ns() dereference of freed memory, as shown by the KASAN report; replacing cad_pid also persistently breaks host Ctrl-Alt-Del and power-button delivery to init."
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