DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89643
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: avoid dropping live tree ref on fsnotify rule autoremove auditdelrule() is used for both netlink deletion templates and internal fsnotify autoremove. The former passes a parsed template which owns a temporary tree reference; the latter passes the installed entry itself. The unconditional auditputtree() at the end of auditdelrule() assumes the template case. For mixed AUDITDIR plus AUDITEXE rules, an fsnotify autoremove event therefore drops the installed rule's live tree reference. Repeating this across rules sharing the same tree can free the tree while another rule still references it, and a later autoremove dereferences the freed pathname while comparing rules. Move the temporary-tree put to auditrulechange(), the caller that owns deletion templates. Keep it in the AUDITDELRULE cleanup so both successful deletion and -ENOENT still release the parser-owned tree. [PM: dropped unnecessary comment for line length reasons]
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https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-89643