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CVE-2026-63952

high

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memfd: deny writeable mappings when implying SEAL_WRITE When SEAL_EXEC is added, SEAL_WRI…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memfd: deny writeable mappings when implying SEAL_WRITE When SEAL_EXEC is added, SEAL_WRITE is implied to make W^X. But the implied seal is set after the check that makes sure the memfd can not have any writable mappings. This means one can use SEAL_EXEC to apply SEAL_WRITE while having writeable mappings. This breaks the contract that SEAL_WRITE provides and can be used by an attacker to pass a memfd that appears to be write sealed but can still be modified arbitrarily. Fix this by adding the implied seals before the call for mapping_deny_writable() is done.

CVSS
8.4
8.4 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-07-19 16:17
Modified: 2026-10-28 18:09
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 14 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 18:48 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥6.3 <6.6.143, ≥6.7 <6.12.93, ≥6.13 <6.18.35, ≥6.19 <7.0.12, 7.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo CWE-362

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0995d1f79aed8ccbf62056189dd53fd19726ea08
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b041514cb6eae45869b020f743c14d983363222
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3be2a24f7f72ad7321ed6ad1715b956a4527bcf4
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/555702282d4536a865dfffb1cd4f6028f196e7e8
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3f4f82d1315f1439059a83d1c22c51a5b43d99e

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 18:48 UTC · record ↗

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