CVE-2026-68455

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: liveupdate: validate session type before performing operation The sessions ioctls are not applicable to all session types. PRESERVE_FD is only applicable to outgoing sessions. RETRIEVE_FD and FINISH are only valid for incoming session. Calling a incoming ioctl on an outgoing session is invalid and can cause file handlers to run into unexpected errors. For example, a user can create a (outgoing) session, preserve a memfd, and then immediately do a retrieve without doing a kexec in between. This would result in memfd's retrieve handler to run. The handlers expects to be called from a post-kexec context, and will try to do a kho_restore_vmalloc() or kho_restore_folio() to try and restore memory. KHO catches this (thanks to KHO_PAGE_MAGIC) and returns an error, but since this is considered an internal error and KHO throws out a bunch of WARN()s. Associate a type with each ioctl op and validate the type in luo_session_ioctl() before dispatching the ioctl handler to make sure the op is being called for the right session type.

SeverityUnknown
CVSS—
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux
PublishedAug 15, 2026
First seenAug 15, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • Linux Linux3dc8a46d08a8a060d4128e9f497060b8d03c1595, 507e3b479f9c6d85135eb5e1a77fb3fddb259ad8 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linux16cec0d265219f14a7fcebcc43aeb69205adba56 ≤ v < 3dc8a46d08a8a060d4128e9f497060b8d03c1595, 16cec0d265219f14a7fcebcc43aeb69205adba56 ≤ v < 507e3b479f9c6d85135eb5e1a77fb3fddb259ad8, 6.193dc8a46d08a8a060d4128e9f497060b8d03c1595, 507e3b479f9c6d85135eb5e1a77fb3fddb259ad8

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