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on IMA-enforced servers a remote SMB client with write access can truncate appraised files without clearing IMA_DONE_MASK, the highest-impact reachable path.\nAC:L - Once IMA policy is active, an attacker with write access can deterministically truncate a target file; security_path_truncate/file_truncate always run before do_truncate, so stale IMA_DONE_MASK persists reliably with no races or special memory layout.\nPR:L - Exploitation requires only standard file write permission (MAY_WRITE) on the target inode—via local truncate/ftruncate or an authenticated ksmbd/NFS client with write ACL—not real root or init-namespace capabilities beyond normal write access to the appraised file.\nUI:N - The attacker directly issues truncate/ftruncate or remote SETATTR/truncate operations; no victim must mount media, open a file, or perform any separate action beyond the attacker's own write/truncate request.\nS:U - The flaw defeats IMA measurement/appraisal caching within the same kernel integrity authority; it does not cross VM, hypervisor, IOMMU, or container sandbox boundaries.\nC:H - Stale IMA_APPRAISED flags let process_measurement() skip re-appraisal on exec/open, so attacker-modified truncated content in hash-appraised executables runs with a cached pass and can access any data reachable by that code.\nI:H - Without clearing IMA_DONE_MASK on truncation, modified file content retains cached IMA_MEASURED/IMA_APPRAISED state and bypasses re-measurement, re-audit, and re-appraisal, defeating the core IMA integrity guarantee for affected files.\nA:N - The bug is a stale-cache integrity bypass with no kernel memory corruption, oops, panic, hang, or deadlock; truncation may change individual file availability but does not inherently crash or deny the host kernel." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "3323eec921efd815178a23107ab63588c605c0b2", "lessThan": "5f46705d96eb60587aa7035acfcbec977e08d620", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3323eec921efd815178a23107ab63588c605c0b2", "lessThan": "dd21c96a71e876c8df9ec546b885a2c5f47bbb05", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3323eec921efd815178a23107ab63588c605c0b2", "lessThan": "0baed1fa2184c81e4baf76f445d3faa4b738c8f7", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3323eec921efd815178a23107ab63588c605c0b2", "lessThan": "b80bed5c871a80151351342c065579405ce77145", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "2.6.30", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "2.6.30", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.104", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.45", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.1.9", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.2", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.30", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.104" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.30", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.45" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.30", "versionEndExcluding": "7.1.9" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "2.6.30", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f46705d96eb60587aa7035acfcbec977e08d620" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd21c96a71e876c8df9ec546b885a2c5f47bbb05" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0baed1fa2184c81e4baf76f445d3faa4b738c8f7" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b80bed5c871a80151351342c065579405ce77145" } ], "title": "ima: Instantiate file_truncate and path_truncate hooks", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } }, "adp": [ { "metrics": [ { "other": { "type": "ssvc", "content": { "id": "CVE-2026-74592", "role": "CISA Coordinator", "options": [ { "Exploitation": "none" }, { "Automatable": "no" }, { "Technical Impact": "total" } ], "version": "2.0.3", "timestamp": "2026-10-16T19:01:38.240831Z" } } } ], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-16T19:05:59.525Z" } } ] } }