CVE-2026-46057 PUBLISHED

landlock: Fix LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF inheritance across fork()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ead9079f75696a028aea8860787770c80eddb8f9 to 2fcde49092aac55d5beef43fdd3633217672f7d1 (excl.)
  • affected from ead9079f75696a028aea8860787770c80eddb8f9 to 1c513b8a00df13d231021e74ad92babb3fedf64a (excl.)
  • affected from ead9079f75696a028aea8860787770c80eddb8f9 to 874c8f83826c95c62c21d9edfe9ef43e5c346724 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.27 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.4 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc1 to * (incl.)

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