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CVE-2026-99024

Linux: optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
NoneNot scored
ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)No scoreNo FIRST EPSS score in this snapshot yet
Fixed in262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018dAlso 8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6, 681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4 and 1 moreCVE List
Published23 Oct 2026Updated 23 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

  • 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018dLinuxCVE List
  • 8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6LinuxCVE List
  • 681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4LinuxCVE List
  • 2f7240f0a6fd83df274fc0a2abf0609b4e6bd388LinuxCVE List

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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]

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 12

  • Linuxaffected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 before 262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018dCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 before 8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 before 681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 before 2f7240f0a6fd83df274fc0a2abf0609b4e6bd388CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 before c108feca0a096f8db25d1b69130035025e9e936dCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 4.12CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 4.12CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.6.160 through 6.6.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.12.113 through 6.12.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.18.57 through 6.18.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.11 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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