CVE-2026-46057

landlock: Fix LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF inheritance across fork()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Jun 14, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

landlock: Fix LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF inheritance across fork()

hook_cred_transfer() only copies the Landlock security blob when the source credential has a domain. This is inconsistent with landlock_restrict_self() which can set LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF on a credential without creating a domain (via the ruleset_fd=-1 path): the field is committed but not preserved across fork() because the child's prepare_creds() calls hook_cred_transfer() which skips the copy when domain is NULL.

This breaks the documented use case where a process mutes subdomain logs before forking sandboxed children: the children lose the muting and their domains produce unexpected audit records.

Fix this by unconditionally copying the Landlock credential blob.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ead9079f75696a028aea8860787770c80eddb8f9 to before 2fcde49092aac55d5beef43fdd3633217672f7d1Affected
  • ead9079f75696a028aea8860787770c80eddb8f9 to before 1c513b8a00df13d231021e74ad92babb3fedf64aAffected
  • ead9079f75696a028aea8860787770c80eddb8f9 to before 874c8f83826c95c62c21d9edfe9ef43e5c346724Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.18.27 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.4 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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