CVE-2026-43434

rust_binder: check ownership before using vma

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 8, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

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

rust_binder: check ownership before using vma

When installing missing pages (or zapping them), Rust Binder will look up the vma in the mm by address, and then call vm_insert_page (or zap_page_range_single). However, if the vma is closed and replaced with a different vma at the same address, this can lead to Rust Binder installing pages into the wrong vma.

By installing the page into a writable vma, it becomes possible to write to your own binder pages, which are normally read-only. Although you're not supposed to be able to write to those pages, the intent behind the design of Rust Binder is that even if you get that ability, it should not lead to anything bad. Unfortunately, due to another bug, that is not the case.

To fix this, store a pointer in vm_private_data and check that the vma returned by vma_lookup() has the right vm_ops and vm_private_data before trying to use the vma. This should ensure that Rust Binder will refuse to interact with any other VMA. The plan is to introduce more vma abstractions to avoid this unsafe access to vm_ops and vm_private_data, but for now let's start with the simplest possible fix.

C Binder performs the same check in a slightly different way: it provides a vm_ops->close that sets a boolean to true, then checks that boolean after calling vma_lookup(), but this is more fragile than the solution in this patch. (We probably still want to do both, but the vm_ops->close callback will be added later as part of the follow-up vma API changes.)

It's still possible to remap the vma so that pages appear in the right vma, but at the wrong offset, but this is a separate issue and will be fixed when Rust Binder gets a vm_ops->close callback.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to before 20a01f20d1f4064d90a8627aa41b5987f0220bb9Affected
  • eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to before 5a472d04fb4b9115fb7d1535bd885cea450f14dbAffected
  • eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to before 8ef2c15aeae07647f530d30f6daaf79eb801bcd1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.19 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.9 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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