CVE-2026-99024
optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized optee_probe() called tee_device_register() on both the client and the supplicant device before the rest of struct optee had been initialized. tee_device_register() calls cdev_device_add(), which does two things at once: it creates /dev/tee0 and /dev/teepriv0, and it links the device into the tee class so that class_find_device() can find it. From that moment on the device is reachable both from user space via tee_open() and from kernel space via tee_client_open_context(). The only gate in teedev_open() is tee_device_get(), which merely checks that teedev->desc is non-NULL, which was already set by tee_device_alloc(). Therefore, there is effectively no gate at all. A context opened in that window can run against a struct optee where - optee->call_queue.mutex is not initialized by optee_cq_init() - optee->supp mutex and completions is not initialized by optee_supp_init() - optee->rpmb_dev_mutex is not initialized yet, - the message argument cache is not initialized by optee_shm_arg_cache_init() - optee->ctx is still NULL Any open session or invoke during this window takes uninitialized mutexes and dereferences a NULL pointer. Fix it by moving both tee_device_register() calls down to the point where all of struct optee is set up. [JW: adding fixes and cc]
Affected products and packages
CNA (CVE.org)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | affected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 … < 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d affected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 … < 8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6 affected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 … < 681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4 affected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 … < 2f7240f0a6fd83df274fc0a2abf0609b4e6bd388 affected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 … < c108feca0a096f8db25d1b69130035025e9e936d default: unaffected |
| Linux | Linux | affected: 4.12 unaffected: 0 … < 4.12 unaffected: 6.6.160 … <= 6.6.* unaffected: 6.12.113 … <= 6.12.* unaffected: 6.18.57 … <= 6.18.* unaffected: 7.2.11 … <= 7.2.* unaffected: 7.3 … <= * default: affected |
Open-source packages (GitHub Advisory / OSV)
optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| >= 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2, < 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d; < 8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6; < 681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4; < 2f7240f0a6fd83df274fc0a2abf0609b4e6bd388; < c108feca0a096f8db25d1b69130035025e9e936d | 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d, 8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6, 681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4, 2f7240f0a6fd83df274fc0a2abf0609b4e6bd388, c108feca0a096f8db25d1b69130035025e9e936d | ||
| Linux | Kernel | >= 4.12.0, < 6.6.160; >= 6.7.0, < 6.12.113; >= 6.13.0, < 6.18.57; >= 6.19.0, < 7.2.11 | 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.57, 7.2.11 |
Linux distribution status
References (8)
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git OSV
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d NVD, CNA, OSV
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f7240f0a6fd83df274fc0a2abf0609b4e6bd388 NVD, CNA, OSV
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4 NVD, CNA, OSV
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6 NVD, CNA, OSV
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c108feca0a096f8db25d1b69130035025e9e936d NVD, CNA, OSV
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/99xxx/CVE-2026-99024.json OSV
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-99024 OSV