HIGHCVSS v3.1 7.0Vulnerability

CVE-2026-99218

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coredump: hold RCU while releasing parked threads coredump_finish() releases the parked threads by clearing ->task in their core_thread entry and calling wake_up_process() on each of them. It does that without holding a reference on the task and without being inside rcu. But calling wake_up_process(task) without rcu here isn't safe. A parked thread doesn't need that wakeup to leave. A spurious wakeup or a preemption after the store is enough for the task to go away. So if the coredump client is preempted between the store and wake_up_process() the thread can exit and be freed in the meantime and try_to_wake_up() takes pi_lock in freed memory. Hold rcu across the loop.

Properties

Severity
HIGH
Nvd fetched at
2026-11-02T16:55:11.069321+00:00
Cvss severity
HIGH
Cvss score
7
Retrieved at
2026-11-02T16:56:00+00:00
Score
7
Cvss version
3.1
Last source
NVD
Cve id
CVE-2026-99218
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
First seen by Signal
2026-11-02T16:50:29+00:00
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published at
2026-11-02T16:17:45.740
Last modified
2026-11-02T16:17:45.740

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