CVE-2026-89595EPSS p11.0%
CVE-2026-89595CVE-2026-89595
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fsnotify: Fix stale object mask after concurrent mark updates
When a mark gets a new event bit, fanotify and inotify may avoid
recalculating the object mask if the cached aggregate already contains that
bit. This is racy with a recalculation triggered by a concurrent update to
another mark on the same connector.
The concurrent scan can read the mark before the new bit is added, while
the updater reads the old aggregate before that scan publishes its result.
The updater then skips recalculation and the scan publishes a mask without
the bit, leaving the object mask stale after both updates complete.
This can be reproduced with two fanotify groups watching the same inode:
one thread removes FAN_MODIFY from one existing mark while another thread
adds FAN_MODIFY to the other mark. After both fanotify_mark() calls return,
writes can fail to produce FAN_MODIFY for the group whose mark now contains
the bit. This was reprod
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.22% probability of exploitation · percentile 11.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-14 |