System crash or memory corruption via dangling domain
Published Jun 16, 2026 · Updated Jun 16, 2026
Use-after-free in Zephyr RTOS 4.4.0 allows local users with kernel privileges to crash Xtensa MMU systems or corrupt page-table memory. arch_mem_domain_deinit clears the page-table pointer but leaves the caller-owned domain node linked in xtensa_domain_list, so later map or unmap walks dereference stale storage. Reachability requires kernel or supervisor code on Xtensa builds with CONFIG_USERSPACE and CONFIG_XTENSA_MMU; unprivileged threads and remote inputs cannot trigger the path directly.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Zephyr RTOS 4.4.0 allows local users with kernel privileges to crash Xtensa MMU systems or corrupt page-table memory. arch_mem_domain_deinit clears the page-table pointer but leaves the caller-owned domain node linked in xtensa_domain_list, so later map or unmap walks dereference stale storage. Reachability requires kernel or supervisor code on Xtensa builds with CONFIG_USERSPACE and CONFIG_XTENSA_MMU; unprivileged threads and remote inputs cannot trigger the path directly.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-10635
- Published
- Jun 16, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- Vendor
- Zephyr Project
- Product
- Zephyr RTOS
- Classifications
- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Jun 16, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 16, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.4.0 <4.5.0
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