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CVE-2026-43074

eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period In certain situations, ep_free() in eventpoll.c will kfree the epi->ep eventpoll struct while it still being used by another concurrent thread. Defer the kfree() to an RCU callback to prevent UAF.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected f2451def095c1743adcfcb0cb5dadc86034e162a before 902120be4f44947df6311002addc7faf69bdbff1; affected a1f93804449d13f97dabd4b996817de4bf1ed67a before a6d57084372161f86660bc4607784420e00efe2c; affected 58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a before a6566cd33f6f967a7651ebf2ce0dd31572e319cf; affected 58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a before 5b1173b165421561db29f30afc7e97d940a398a9; affected 58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a before 7e8083f5eeedab0f460063b9c2c14c9a4e71a427; affected 58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a before ae0bb9c1fb7c2594519aeeb096cf2c3b7837b322; affected 58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a before 07712db80857d5d09ae08f3df85a708ecfc3b61f
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.4; unaffected 0 before 6.4; unaffected 6.6.136 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.83 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.24 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.14 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

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References

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