Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2026-89496)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2026-89496). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: always run deallocs on copy-on-write completion
Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak
caused by doing 'copy_file_range()' within the same filesystem:
unreferenced object 0xffff88812192c980 (size 32):
comm "syz.0.49", pid 12095, jiffies 4294964143
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
c0 c5 92 21 81 88 ff ff 00 02 00 00 00 06 00 00 ...!............
backtrace (crc 7068d63f):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
ocfs2_find_per_slot_free_list fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6618 [inline]
ocfs2_cache_block_dealloc+0x155/0x4b0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6786
ocfs2_cache_extent_block_free fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6819 [inline]
ocfs2_unlink_path+0x286/0x450 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2613
ocfs2_rotate_subtree_left fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2779 [inline]
__ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x1f6f/0x2da0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2985
ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x283/0xe00 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3237
ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent+0xf56/0x1a20 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3825
ocfs2_split_extent+0x15f4/0x2940 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:5138
ocfs2_clear_ext_refcount+0x2f6/0x550 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3098
ocfs2_replace_clusters fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3131…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-89496 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2026-89496" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-89496 (Linux kernel)
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Linux kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89496 linux Fixed in: 6.1.190-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-89496 linux
References
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com