{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290","details":"OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed as companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm; Cortex-A cores using the TrustZone technology. Starting in version 3.16.0 and prior to 4.11.0, a user-after-free (UAF) race condition exists in the shared memory teardown logic of FF-A  within OP-TEE SPMC/SP flows. This only applies when OP-TEE is configured as an SPMC for S-EL0 SPs, that is, with `CFG_SECURE_PARTITION=y`. The function `sp_mem_remove()`, responsible for freeing entries in `smem-\u003ereceivers` and `smem-\u003eregions`, fails to acquire the global `sp_mem_lock` before performing the `free()` operations. Concurrently, other code paths, such as `sp_mem_get_receiver()`, iterate over these same lists without holding a lock, or, like `sp_mem_is_shared()`, iterate while holding the lock but are not serialized against the unprotected `free()` in `sp_mem_remove()`. This creates a cross-thread race where a thread iterating the list can acquire a pointer to an entry (e.g., `struct sp_mem_map_region` or `struct sp_mem_receiver`), and then another thread calls `sp_mem_remove()`, freeing the object. When the first thread resumes and dereferences the pointer, it results in a Use-After-Free vulnerability. Version 4.11.0 fixes the issue.","modified":"2026-06-12T09:04:11.356013946Z","published":"2026-06-03T18:16:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-40290"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-40290"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40290"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/security/advisories/GHSA-332c-xr93-849m"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"optee-os","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:25.10","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/optee-os?arch=source&distro=questing"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["4.5.0-1","4.5.0-2","4.7.0-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"optee-os","binary_version":"4.7.0-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290.json"}},{"package":{"name":"optee-os","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/optee-os?arch=source&distro=resolute"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["4.7.0-1","4.8.0-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"4.8.0-1","binary_name":"optee-os"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}