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CVE-2026-68166

userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs

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

userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs

Vova Tokarev says:

  userfaultfd allows registration on shadow stack VMAs.  With userfaultfd
  access, you can register on the shadow stack, discard a page ... and
  inject a page with chosen return addresses via UFFDIO_COPY.

Update vma_can_userfault() to reject VM_SHADOW_STACK.

While on it, also reject VM_SPECIAL so that if a driver would implement
vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register special VMAs with
userfaultfd.

Since VM_SPECIAL includes VM_DONTEXPAND which is set but hugetlb, exclude
hugetlb VMAs from the check for VM_SPECIAL.
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HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version 54007f818206dc27309ca423df4c87dd160a7208
Version < d974b4b786214883bd8e56bda10b454c80fd6205
Status affected
Version 54007f818206dc27309ca423df4c87dd160a7208
Version < 495a28d5a100be1b232633f4c2dcc42ba10b3796
Status affected
Version 54007f818206dc27309ca423df4c87dd160a7208
Version < 165613191ad9d034bf17c00e3a142f9561597ec5
Status affected
Version 54007f818206dc27309ca423df4c87dd160a7208
Version < 0c26202b157f1efc3cd2f26f5c30f59b508a6a5d
Status affected
Version 54007f818206dc27309ca423df4c87dd160a7208
Version < 3c58f641e813c3c71039f8fd4d4e2a3aab713288
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.6
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 6.6
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.153
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.105
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.44
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.1.*
Version 7.1.6
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.2
Status unaffected
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/165613191ad9d034bf17c00e3a142f9561597ec5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c26202b157f1efc3cd2f26f5c30f59b508a6a5d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c58f641e813c3c71039f8fd4d4e2a3aab713288
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/495a28d5a100be1b232633f4c2dcc42ba10b3796
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d974b4b786214883bd8e56bda10b454c80fd6205