[NVD] CVE-2026-80929 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysctl: move the "cad_pid" entry from pid_table[] to kern_reboot_table[] cad_pid is global, and kill_cad_pid() is only used in the root namespace. However, due to pid_table_root_permissions(), a non-root user

CVE-2026-80929 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-09-11T20:18:56.647

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

sysctl: move the "cad_pid" entry from pid_table[] to kern_reboot_table[]

cad_pid is global, and kill_cad_pid() is only used in the root namespace.

However, due to pid_table_root_permissions(), a non-root user can unshare pid/user namespaces and modify it from the