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GHSA-W7JM-33HW-FPP2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-11-02 18:32 – Updated: 2026-11-03 21:32

Details

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

tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers

update_last_data_if_empty() is called from tracing_open() with O_TRUNC, tracing_read_pipe() and tracing_buffers_read() without trace_types_lock. Two readers can both pass the LAST_BOOT test and free module_delta twice, and a module notifier can update module_delta while it is being freed.

Take trace_types_lock in those paths and keep the callers that already hold it on an unlocked variant.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-99237 (GCVE-0-2026-99237)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-11-02 16:06 – Updated: 2026-11-03 19:13

Title

tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers update_last_data_if_empty() is called from tracing_open() with O_TRUNC, tracing_read_pipe() and tracing_buffers_read() without trace_types_lock. Two readers can both pass the LAST_BOOT test and free module_delta twice, and a module notifier can update module_delta while it is being freed. Take trace_types_lock in those paths and keep the callers that already hold it on an unlocked variant.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6847 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92b69f6db640dadc0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6d991afe775ab7fc…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f06cfe0b60a87861…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a6bd62f09147b49b…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 32dc0042528d385d83bf458e4cf3a49c5110afea , < 92b69f6db640dadc0851762ee2e12db99f083cad (git) Affected: 32dc0042528d385d83bf458e4cf3a49c5110afea , < d6d991afe775ab7fcf89523a2502b7ca3be56ffd (git) Affected: 32dc0042528d385d83bf458e4cf3a49c5110afea , < 1f06cfe0b60a878619d1d8efe1cd0f515b7dc2aa (git) Affected: 32dc0042528d385d83bf458e4cf3a49c5110afea , < 5a6bd62f09147b49b31fd19d4eba122cb5f941a1 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.60 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.14 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3.1 , ≤ 7.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.4-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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