CVE-2026-43418

Technical Description

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

sched/mmcid: Prevent CID stalls due to concurrent forks

A newly forked task is accounted as MMCID user before the task is visible

in the process' thread list and the global task list. This creates the

following problem:

CPU1 CPU2

fork()

sched_mm_cid_fork(tnew1)

tnew1->mm.mm_cid_users++;

tnew1->mm_cid.cid = getcid()

-> preemption

fork()

sched_mm_cid_fork(tnew2)

tnew2->mm.mm_cid_users++;

// Reaches the per CPU threshold

mm_cid_fixup_tasks_to_cpus()

for_each_other(current, p)

....

As tnew1 is not visible yet, this fails to fix up the already allocated CID

of tnew1. As a consequence a subsequent schedule in might fail to acquire a

(transitional) CID and the machine stalls.

Move the invocation of sched_mm_cid_fork() after the new task becomes

visible in the thread and the task list to prevent this.

This also makes it symmetrical vs.

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.

Affected Products

References