CVE-2026-46315 PUBLISHED

io_uring/waitid: clear waitid info before copying it to userspace

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 09.06.2026 Updated: 09.06.2026

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

io_uring/waitid: clear waitid info before copying it to userspace

IORING_OP_WAITID stores its result fields in struct io_waitid::info and later copies them to userspace siginfo. The prep path initializes the request arguments, but it does not initialize info itself.

If the wait operation completes without reporting a child event, the common wait code can return without writing wo_info. In that case io_waitid_finish() still copies iw->info to userspace, exposing stale bytes from the reused io_kiocb command storage.

Clear the result storage during prep so the io_uring path matches the regular waitid syscall, which uses a zero-initialized struct waitid_info.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b to 954518e5a4a5efc5033253f6e36fc7b9f98363a3 (excl.)
  • affected from f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b to b737c6612c60c23b40a9f31749b99e6f61943847 (excl.)
  • affected from f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b to 4d2a0de611ab60d02fc768ae0cd5918b16bd5474 (excl.)
  • affected from f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b to 93d93f5f8da791e98159795c6ef683f45bd95d13 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.92 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.34 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.11 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc5 to * (incl.)

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