CVE-2026-43472

Technical Description

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

unshare: fix unshare_fs() handling

There's an unpleasant corner case in unshare(2), when we have a

CLONE_NEWNS in flags and current->fs hadn't been shared at all; in that

case copy_mnt_ns() gets passed current->fs instead of a private copy,

which causes interesting warts in proof of correctness]

> I guess if private means fs->users == 1, the condition could still be true.

Unfortunately, it's worse than just a convoluted proof of correctness.

Consider the case when we have CLONE_NEWCGROUP in addition to CLONE_NEWNS

(and current->fs->users == 1).

We pass current->fs to copy_mnt_ns(), all right. Suppose it succeeds and

flips current->fs->{pwd,root} to corresponding locations in the new namespace.

Now we proceed to copy_cgroup_ns(), which fails (e.g. with -ENOMEM).

We call put_mnt_ns() on the namespace created by copy_mnt_ns(), it's

destroyed and its mount tree is dissolved, but... current->fs->root and

current->fs-

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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