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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2026· Updated Aug 23, 2026

CVE-2026-68166

CVE-2026-68166

Description

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

userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs

Vova Tokarev says:

userfaultfd allows registration on shadow stack VMAs. With userfaultfd access, you can register on the shadow stack, discard a page ... and inject a page with chosen return addresses via UFFDIO_COPY.

Update vma_can_userfault() to reject VM_SHADOW_STACK.

While on it, also reject VM_SPECIAL so that if a driver would implement vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register special VMAs with userfaultfd.

Since VM_SPECIAL includes VM_DONTEXPAND which is set but hugetlb, exclude hugetlb VMAs from the check for VM_SPECIAL.

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