CVE-2026-90270 PUBLISHED

arm_mpam: Disable driver unbind to avoid UAF

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

arm_mpam: Disable driver unbind to avoid UAF

When a user unbinds an MSC and that MSC is the only MSC left for a component then the corresponding mpam_component will be freed. If the user then goes on to read the schemata file in the resctrl filesystem then the mpam_component will be accessed from resctrl_arch_get_config() leading to a use after free.

As the MPAM driver is not a module the unbind sysfs interface is the only way to trigger the remove. Instead of dealing with the complexity of allowing some unused MSC to unbind just remove the unbind sysfs interface.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f04046f2577a5c76167333ca99d3903ee5331ba0 to 7d199b6a0651abad3ca6d0877dbedbe8fe6ea9e2 (excl.)
  • affected from f04046f2577a5c76167333ca99d3903ee5331ba0 to bb1a0f582d519c0461b0940116e2b52c5ba31459 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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