Local privilege escalation via digest-size race
Published Aug 22, 2026 · Updated Aug 25, 2026
Out-of-bounds write in the fsverity BPF kfunc in affected Linux kernels allows local users to escalate privileges via a buffer race. The bpf_get_fsverity_digest() kfunc trusts the mutable arg->digest_size field again after bounds checking and uses it as the starting offset for memset(), so a concurrent change writes zeros beyond the dynptr-backed buffer. Reachability requires loading and attaching a BPF LSM program with CAP_BPF and CAP_PERFMON, racing a sibling write, enabling fsverity on an owned file, and invoking a local LSM hook; no victim interaction or network service is involved.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds write in the fsverity BPF kfunc in affected Linux kernels allows local users to escalate privileges via a buffer race. The bpf_get_fsverity_digest() kfunc trusts the mutable arg->digest_size field again after bounds checking and uses it as the starting offset for memset(), so a concurrent change writes zeros beyond the dynptr-backed buffer. Reachability requires loading and attaching a BPF LSM program with CAP_BPF and CAP_PERFMON, racing a sibling write, enabling fsverity on an owned file, and invoking a local LSM hook; no victim interaction or network service is involved.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-74590
- Published
- Aug 22, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 25, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-663, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 22, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 25, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=67814c00de3161181cddd06c77aeaf86ac4cc584 <1344b632cb5043e32939a84568125719111c5af3
- Affected versionversion=67814c00de3161181cddd06c77aeaf86ac4cc584 <2a5cfcad1d56e26d645b7887b0ed24c371851525
- Affected versionversion=67814c00de3161181cddd06c77aeaf86ac4cc584 <3e8ec7c0387273329374f5c7bd61f5f38af71fe1
- Affected versionversion=67814c00de3161181cddd06c77aeaf86ac4cc584 <5bd63cad9df4328a184c409fbdad4f17944bcdb8
- Affected versionversion=6.8
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