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SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT

CVE-2026-99169

28 October 2026

A FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex is a shared futex that refers to an MM. It is possible for a process to wait on a shared futex with a different MM because a FUT_OFF_INODE waiter can be requeued onto a FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex by another process. This can cause FUT_OFF_MMSHARED waiters on a freed MM to consume wakeups intended for a newly allocated MM at the same address.

Fix it by keying FUT_OFF_MMSHARED using a unique 64-bit per-MM ID. Leave private futexes as before to avoid influencing the performance of the hotpath.

(Multi-threaded processes typically implicitly use FUT_OFF_MMSHARED by setting clear_child_tid such that it points into anonymous memory, which causes mm_release() in a multi-threaded mm to perform FUTEX_WAKE.)

Introduced

5.7 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d

Fixed releases

6.18.59 c17cc2027773e8e4913c5ab0fe3a489b1ed5bf81

7.2.13 2855ddc6844f527e375e78afb55ec2a5182f23b3

7.3 3267512ad1c2cc0c7768c5b014dc2cceb398a801

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