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CVE-2026-64588
fuse-uring: fix data races on ring->ready
Published 2026-08-06 (2 months ago) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem fs/fuse. Debian urgency: unimportant.
What to do, per Debian release
Debian's own status for CVE-2026-64588 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source
| Release | Status | Version | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 12bookworm | not affected | 6.1.190-1 | Nothing to do. bookworm never shipped the vulnerable code. |
| Debian 13trixie | not affected | 6.12.113-1 | Nothing to do. trixie never shipped the vulnerable code. |
| Debian 14forky | fixed | 7.1.4-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.1.4-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian unstablesid | fixed | 7.1.4-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.1.4-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
The vulnerability
What the bug is
On weakly-ordered architectures, the store to fiq->ops can be reordered past the store to ring->ready, allowing a CPU that sees ring->ready == true via fuse_uring_ready() to dispatch requests through a stale fiq->ops pointer. Upgrade the store to smp_store_release() and the load in fuse_uring_ready() to smp_load_acquire() so that the preceding WRITE_ONCE(fiq->ops, ...) is visible to any CPU that observes ring->ready == true. Additionally, fuse_uring_do_register() publishes ring->ready with WRITE_ONCE() but the fast-path check reads it with a plain load. This is a marked-vs-unmarked access that KCSAN will flag. Wrap it in READ_ONCE() to mark it without adding unnecessary ordering. Also wrap the fc->ring load in fuse_uring_ready() in READ_ONCE() to prevent the compiler from reloading it between the NULL check and the dereference.
Where it lives
The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.
fs/fuse/dev_uring.c
fs/fuse/dev_uring_i.h
- What this is
- FUSE FILESYSTEM [IO-URING]MAINTAINERS section matched on fs/fuse/dev_uring.c · fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev · Maintained
Check it on the machine
grep -wE 'CONFIG_FUSE_FS|CONFIG_FUSE_IO_URING' /boot/config-$(uname -r)Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.
Show whether Debian builds this, per release
Debian builds this code. Every release with an answer below compiles the affected file into the kernels it ships. The build rule could not be established for 2 releases, so nothing is claimed about those.
- bookworm, trixie?
- forky, sidy
- ?
- not established - no Makefile entry for the affected file
- y
- built into the kernel image on every flavour - only a patch removes it
Where a release above reads "not established", no build rule for the affected file was found in that release's kernel tree. That is a gap in this lookup, not a finding that the code is absent.
- Build switches
- CONFIG_FUSE_FS, CONFIG_FUSE_IO_URING
- Reads as
- all on means the file is compiled; any one off means it is not.
From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages
Signals
- Published
- 2026-08-06 (2 months ago)source
- CVSS
- 7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsource recompute it - Attack vector
- local (AV:L)source
- EPSS
- 0.17%, higher than 6.3% of all CVEssource
- CISA KEV
- not listedthe KEV catalogue
- Debian urgency
- unimportantsource
- Subsystem
- fs/fuse
Upstream fixes
The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source
| Introduced | Fixed in | Commit |
|---|---|---|
| 6.14 | 6.18.39 | b156bb996697 |
| 6.14 | 7.1.4 | d01a09b442cb |
| 6.14 | 7.2 | 46725a0056c8 |
Why the CNA scored it this way
Quoted from the kernel CNA's own scoring file, word for word. A highlighted metric carries the most severe value CVSS v3.1 defines for it, which is what pushes the score up. source
- AV:LAttack vector, local
- The bug is reached locally by mounting FUSE with io-uring and submitting IORING_OP_URING_CMD registration while other local threads generate FUSE requests; no network protocol path invokes fuse_uring_ready() or fuse_uring_do_register().
- AC:LAttack complexity, low
- The attacker controls both sides of the race by registering ring entries on /dev/fuse while concurrently issuing filesystem operations on the same mount, so the publish window on weakly ordered CPUs can be driven and retried without relying on victim state.
- PR:LPrivileges required, low
- FUSE is FS_USERNS_MOUNT, so an ordinary user can create a user-namespace mount, open /dev/fuse, and enable FUSE_OVER_IO_URING without init-namespace root privileges.
- UI:NUser interaction, none
- The attacker can run both the FUSE daemon that registers io-uring queues and the client threads that generate requests on that mount, so no separate victim action is required.
- S:UScope, unchanged
- Impact is confined to the host kernel authority as a local FUSE/io-uring memory-safety failure, not a VM, IOMMU, or guest-to-host boundary escape.
- C:HConfidentiality impact, high
- Missing acquire on ring->ready lets CPUs observe readiness while fiq->ops and related ring publication are stale, and the unfixed fc->ring reload in fuse_uring_ready() is a check-then-use UAF window against ring teardown, enabling disclosure of reclaimed kernel memory.
- I:HIntegrity impact, high
- Dispatching through inconsistent ops/ring state and the concurrent ring reload UAF allow writes and list/queue operations on stale or reallocated fuse_ring objects, which is exploitable for heap corruption and control-flow hijacking.
- A:HAvailability impact, high
- The same races can NULL-dereference or use a freed fuse_ring in fuse_uring_task_to_queue()/fuse_uring_ready(), hang requests on the wrong queue path, and trigger WARN/oops or panic under panic_on_warn.