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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