CVE-2026-64467 PUBLISHED

rust_binder: use a u64 stride when cleaning up the offsets array

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

rust_binder: use a u64 stride when cleaning up the offsets array

Allocation's Drop walks the offsets array (binder_size_t = u64 entries), cleaning up the objects, but it used usize instead of u64 for both the stride and the per-entry read.

On 64-bit kernels (usize == u64) this is harmless, but on 32-bit kernels it walks the 8-byte entries in 4-byte steps, iterating an N-entry array 2N times, and reads the always-zero high word as offset 0, cleaning up the object at offset 0 N extra times. As a result the referenced node or handle ends up with a lower reference count than it actually has (a refcount over-decrement), and binder's reference accounting is corrupted; for example, the owner can be notified of a strong reference release (BR_RELEASE) even though references still remain.

Change the stride to u64, and read each entry as a u64, narrowing it to usize with try_into().

On 32-bit ARM, when this over-decrement would drive a count below zero, the driver's existing refcount guard refuses it and fires:

rust_binder: Failure: refcount underflow!

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to 89b8cc948dce661af87527623b3a41cdd115e2f9 (excl.)
  • affected from eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to 74920b1b4e474ba7a4de4323c0458deec49d210b (excl.)
  • affected from eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513 to 803c8a9502e9b97cd6ae937618ef4a8fd6274343 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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