CVE-2026-89489

About vulnerability

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

openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscall

sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the “or1k” ABI) takes two user pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written assembly.

l.lwz r29,0(r4) l.lwz r27,0(r5) l.sw 0(r4),r27 l.sw 0(r5),r29

The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory accesses also have no exception table entries.

A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall reads from and writes to it directly.

This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code execution in kernel context.

Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user addresses return -EFAULT.

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Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS

Affected packages:

linux @ 4.19.0 (+17 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.