In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/openclose: keep the lock in io_pipe_fixed()

io_pipe_fixed() installs both ends of the pipe in the fixed file table,
drops ->uring_lock, and copies the slot numbers to the application. If
that faults, it takes the lock again and removes whatever is in these
slots.

If the request is run by io-wq the lock really is dropped in between, and
the slots are visible to everybody else. By the time the error path gets
to them, they may have been closed and reused, by IORING_OP_CLOSE and a
direct open or accept, or by IORING_REGISTER_FILES_UPDATE. Then a file is
removed from the table that has nothing to do with the failed request.

Do the copy with the lock held. Faulting in user memory under
->uring_lock is fine, the registration paths do it all the time.

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Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Linux linux
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Weaknesses CWE-362

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/openclose: keep the lock in io_pipe_fixed() io_pipe_fixed() installs both ends of the pipe in the fixed file table, drops ->uring_lock, and copies the slot numbers to the application. If that faults, it takes the lock again and removes whatever is in these slots. If the request is run by io-wq the lock really is dropped in between, and the slots are visible to everybody else. By the time the error path gets to them, they may have been closed and reused, by IORING_OP_CLOSE and a direct open or accept, or by IORING_REGISTER_FILES_UPDATE. Then a file is removed from the table that has nothing to do with the failed request. Do the copy with the lock held. Faulting in user memory under ->uring_lock is fine, the registration paths do it all the time.
Title io_uring/openclose: keep the lock in io_pipe_fixed()
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-03T11:48:16.602Z

Reserved: 2026-09-25T10:25:14.404Z

Link: CVE-2026-99265

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-03T12:17:33.627

Modified: 2026-11-03T12:17:33.627

Link: CVE-2026-99265

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Updated: 2026-11-03T14:00:18Z

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