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CVE-2026-23014

perf: Ensure swevent hrtimer is properly destroyed PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Ensure swevent hrtimer is properly destroyed With the change to hrtimer_try_to_cancel() in perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer() it appears possible for the hrtimer to still be active by the time the event gets freed. Make sure the event does a full hrtimer_cancel() on the free path by installing a perf_event::destroy handler.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected eb3182ef0405ff2f6668fd3e5ff9883f60ce8801 before deee9dfb111ab00f9dfd46c0c7e36656b80f5235; affected eb3182ef0405ff2f6668fd3e5ff9883f60ce8801 before ff5860f5088e9076ebcccf05a6ca709d5935cfa9; affected 6b8c512811644cf2f5eaf6f44e928683c54127f0; affected 6.17.8 before 6.18
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.18; unaffected 0 before 6.18; unaffected 6.18.6 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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