CVE-2026-64375

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's proc filesystem. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a race condition within the ptracemayaccess function when handling file descriptor links. This vulnerability arises because the system performs multiple task lookups without proper...

proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links)

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CVE-2026-64375

In CVE-2026-64375, the Linux kernel fix addresses a race in ptrace access checks. Previously proc_pid_get_link() and proc_pid_readlink() looked up the task from the pid twice (before and after the check). The patch passes the task to the ->proc_get_link() handler and adds call_proc_get_link() ...

CVE-2026-64375

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: proc: protect ptracemayaccess with execupdatelock FD links procpidgetlink and procpidreadlink currently look up the task from the pid once, then do the ptrace access check on that task, then look up the task from the pid a second...