From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: AL-KERNEL To: kernel-cve@kernelcve.org Subject: [CVE-2026-99024][LOW] optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized [ Upstream Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:10:17 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AL-KERNEL-CVE: CVE-2026-99024 X-AL-KERNEL-Priority: LOW X-AL-KERNEL-Severity: LOW X-AL-KERNEL-Base-Severity: LOW X-AL-KERNEL-KPANIC: NO X-AL-KERNEL-ActionableScore: 2 X-AL-KERNEL-ActionableScore-Lower: unknown X-AL-KERNEL-Commit: 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d List-Id: CVE: CVE-2026-99024 Priority: LOW AL-KERNEL base severity: LOW KPANIC flag: NO Patch: optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized [ Upstream Commit: 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d Upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d Original CVE announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2026-99024 Analysis date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:10:17 -0400 ActionableScore: 2 ActionableScore lower bound: unknown Actionable bucket: Ordinary Moderate Manual review required: NO Summary: A permitted local opener can race OP-TEE probe and invoke operations on a prematurely published, partially initialized device, causing a kernel crash or stall. ====================================================================== ABOUT THIS REPORT ====================================================================== The original Linux kernel CVE announcement for CVE-2026-99024 is available here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2026-99024 The original announcement does not normally provide a security severity estimate, CVSS assessment, or enough information to determine whether the reported kernel bug represents a practically relevant security issue. This report was generated by AL-KERNEL, an AI-assisted Linux kernel vulnerability analysis system developed by Alexander Larkin. It combines an autonomous classifier with LLM-assisted technical analysis and a separate ActionableScore mechanism. The purpose of this report is to prioritize Linux kernel CVEs before manual review, identify cases that require prompt investigation, and support automatic closure of issues that are unlikely to have meaningful security impact. Published priority for this report: LOW Manual review required: NO A detailed explanation of the methodology and priority rules is included at the end of this message. ====================================================================== AL-KERNEL CLASSIFICATION RESULT ====================================================================== CVE-2026-99024 LOW https://www.kernelcve.org/list/?q=CVE-2026-99024 CHECK WITH IMPACT FROM ORIG NN LOW | AEGIS IMPACT MODERATE_KPANIC AEGIS_AS=1 LEGACY=LOW RESULT=DIFF TEMP_DISTANCE_MERGE_SKIP=AEGIS_NO_POSITIVE_SEVERITY_EVIDENCE (final Legacy and Aegis differ; FINAL: LOW, Aegis: MODERATE_KPANIC) Maybe valid. Check manually. Hints by AL-KERNEL: The best (paranoid) CVSS is 'AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H';CWE-362;CWE-665;**CWE-476;BEST CVSS score: '4.7';DESCR 'A race in OP TEE probe made /dev/tee0 and /dev/teepriv0 visible before the associated struct optee was fully initialized. A local process that can open a TEE device during this short window may start a session or invoke operation against a NULL optee ctx or uninitialized mutexes and completions, resulting in a kernel crash or stall. For the CVSS the PR:L value reflects that reliable triggering requires a local process with permission to open the exposed TEE device. AC:H reflects the narrow one time initialization window during driver probe. There is no demonstrated UAF, OOB access, information leak, or controlled write primitive, so the supported impact is availability only. Automated impact decision path. The original SimpleNet classifier selected LOW. The primary LLM estimated paranoid CVSS 4.7 and the production ActionableScore returned 2 with recommendation Ordinary Moderate. The production rules then evaluated CVSS thresholds and ActionableScore thresholds. Recorded rule transitions were final reconciliation stage LOW to LOW because KP specialist did not establish a qualifying panic and the cross model evidence reconciliation rule was applied. The legacy KP specialist has no review artifact for this run. The legacy FD or DH downgrade specialist has no review artifact for this run. Exact triggered rule markers were KPANIC_UNSUPPORTED_REMOVED and V64_AEGIS_UNSUPPORTED_PROMOTION_BLOCKED. The independent weaker Aegis shadow evaluated CVSS 4.7 and ActionableScore 1 with primitive class CLASS_C and manual review REQUIRED. Its independently reconciled impact was MODERATE_KPANIC. The models disagreed but the aggregation rules retained the production result. The final reported impact is LOW.';YES REQUIRES MANUAL CHECK; ,and ActionableScore result is Ordinary Moderate (with actual score 2) MAYBE INIT HARDWARE LINUS KPANIC_UNSUPPORTED_REMOVED V64_AEGIS_UNSUPPORTED_PROMOTION_BLOCKED - - checked ====================================================================== ACTIONABLESCORE ANALYSIS ====================================================================== ActionableScore=2 PrimitiveClass=CLASS_C RealUAF=NO HostAdminRequired=NO NamespaceScopedPrivilege=UNKNOWN ImportantCandidate=NO ManualReview=RECOMMENDED AutoDowngradeAllowed=YES RequiresHostUID0=NO AuthorizationDecisionBypass=NO ProtectedResourceImpact=NONE B4PendingReview=NO B4PendingConfirmed=NO 1. ActionableScore * Raw base score: 2. * Conservative score: 2; no floor or cap applied. * Raw paranoid score: 2. * Paranoid score: 2; no separate non-crash primitive supports escalation. * Final recommended bucket: **Ordinary Moderate**:: 2. Signal breakdown * +1 — Invalid active structured state: published devices permit operations against uninitialized mutexes, completions, caches, and a NULL context. * +1 — Local below-host-admin trigger: supplied evidence supports a local process with permission to open the TEE device. * +1 — Plausible kernel crash or stall from NULL dereference or use of uninitialized synchronization objects. * -1 — Genuinely narrow timing: the device must be opened during the one-time probe interval between registration and initialization. * No UAF, OOB write, controlled overwrite, reclaim, disclosure, authorization bypass, or integrity effect is shown. * No additional availability point: crash and stall are the same availability consequence. * B5-R and B3-PENDING do not apply; there is no retry-accumulated OOB write or shared-backing write. 3. Reachability analysis The vulnerable nodes become reachable from userspace immediately after `tee_device_register()`. The supplied summary supports a permitted local process rather than host administrator or UID 0 as the trigger. Namespace-scoped access is not established. Triggering requires OP-TEE device presence, driver probe, and winning a short, non-repeatable initialization window; no separate privileged reconfiguration is shown. 4. Primitive and severity reading The primitive is premature publication of a partially initialized active object. A session or invocation may dereference `optee->ctx == NULL` or operate on uninitialized synchronization state. This is CLASS_C invalid-state/crash behavior, not a lifetime violation or demonstrated memory-corruption primitive. No attacker-shaped state replacement or useful effect past denial of service is shown. ImportantCandidate is NO because the evidence supports only a narrow crash/stall path. AutoDowngradeAllowed is YES because no unresolved corrupt, ownership, authorization, or trust-boundary primitive remains. B4 is inapplicable: registration timing is an initialization gate, not a mandatory authorization decision changing DENY to ALLOW. 5. One-sentence report phrase A permitted local opener can race OP-TEE probe and invoke operations on a prematurely published, partially initialized device, causing a kernel crash or stall. 6. Manual review advice MANUAL CHECK RECOMMENDED Confirm actual device-node permissions and whether platform-specific reprobe behavior makes the initialization race meaningfully repeatable. 7. Call-site confidence Call-site confidence: high ====================================================================== UPSTREAM PATCH SUMMARY ====================================================================== Patch: optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized [ Upstream Commit: 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d Upstream URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d Changed files: drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c drivers/tee/optee/smc_abi.c Diff excerpt: Not included in this email. See the upstream URL for the full patch. Full patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d ====================================================================== DETAILED REPORT METHODOLOGY ====================================================================== The original Linux kernel CVE announcement for CVE-2026-99024 can be found here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2026-99024 The original CVE announcement normally does not include a security-level estimate. In particular, it may not contain a CVSS assessment, an impact level, or enough information to determine whether the reported bug is a practically relevant security issue. One purpose of this parallel CVE list is to provide that missing technical and prioritization information. The original goal of the AL-KERNEL project was to prioritize Linux kernel CVE analysis automatically before manual review. The system can also help identify non-security issues that may be suitable for automatic closure. This report was generated by AL-KERNEL, an AI-assisted Linux kernel vulnerability analysis system developed by Alexander Larkin. The first analysis stage combines an autonomous classifier with additional LLM-based analysis. The autonomous classifier runs locally on a CPU and is based on a backpropagation neural network. Together, these mechanisms produce a technical vulnerability description, identify likely weakness types, estimate CVSS severity, and provide input for ActionableScore. Two CVSS estimates are retained because incomplete kernel vulnerability information often permits more than one defensible interpretation: Conservative CVSS vector: Not available The Best / paranoid CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H The Best / paranoid CVSS score: 4.7 The conservative vector represents a lower-impact interpretation. The Best/paranoid vector intentionally represents a plausible upper-bound interpretation and should not automatically be treated as demonstrated real-world impact. CVSS may also need to be adjusted for a particular Linux deployment, because actual reachability, privileges, enabled kernel configuration, hardware, namespaces, exposed device nodes, and other environmental conditions can differ significantly between systems. A separate ActionableScore mechanism evaluates practical remediation urgency. Its analysis may include reachability, attack prerequisites, subsystem exposure, memory-corruption characteristics, denial-of-service reliability, and possible confidentiality, integrity, or privilege-escalation impact. Conservative ActionableScore: unknown Paranoid ActionableScore: 2 The final base severity is taken directly from the second tab-separated field of the AL-KERNEL classification result. ActionableScore does not replace or independently override that final AL-KERNEL decision, and if ActionableScore adjusted impact level of ALKERNEL, then you would see self-readable flags above like INCREASED_TO_HIGH_BASED_ON_ACTIONABLESCOREHIGHEREQTHAN7. For an AL-KERNEL result of MODERATE, this report uses the following additional presentation split: ActionableScore below 5 -> MODERATE REGULAR ActionableScore 5 or more -> MODERATE 7.0 The distinction between MODERATE REGULAR and MODERATE 7.0 makes it possible to identify Moderate issues that should receive manual analysis and fixes before lower-priority MODERATE REGULAR issues. In many cases, MODERATE REGULAR fixes may wait for a later rebase or routine update. There is one override in which MODERATE REGULAR becomes MODERATE 7.0 even when the ActionableScore is below 5. When the AL-KERNEL result contains the KPANIC flag, a MODERATE result is always presented as MODERATE 7.0. The KPANIC flag selected with few regexps without usage of AI at all, so it helps to detect cases when Kernel Crash happens and similar (to filter False-Negative results from the LLM usage). KPANIC indicates that a reliable kernel crash, kernel panic, or similarly serious kernel availability impact was identified by the classification workflow. AL-KERNEL base severity for this report: LOW KPANIC detected for this report: NO Published priority for this report (same as in Subject): LOW These results are intended to support engineering triage. They are machine-generated estimates, and cases marked for manual review should be validated by a human security engineer before final disposition. For more info read docs linked from here: https://kernelcve.org/ (and you can submit you own patch there to generate such a report for non-existant CVE-id yet). Note that in many cases this AI tool selects higher severity, than real is (means you can expect Importants instead of Moderate 7.0 or Moderates 7.0 instead of regular Moderates). If you see such cases, please use reply email interface to add additional manual analyses info to this particular CVE. And please, please, let me know when you see Lows instead of Importants or Important instead of Low (because particular for such cases I need to tune this AI tool to make it better for this one and next similar). My contact email for such notifications is alexanjelausa@gmail.com (and both send reply to CVE record itself too and see "reply" button below for howto reply).