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CVE-2026-64226

sched_ext: Avoid UAF in scx_root_enable_workfn() init failure path PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Avoid UAF in scx_root_enable_workfn() init failure path In scx_root_enable_workfn(), put_task_struct(p) is called before scx_error() dereferences p->comm and p->pid. If the iterator's reference is the last drop, the task is freed synchronously and the deref becomes a UAF. Move put_task_struct() past scx_error().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f before cf396941901858b0de426cdcd3974eea6a02c98c; affected f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f before 45c7c4e3db8b700307313c035ea08be829a7f21b; affected f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f before 57e19ba3f58a67eb924022a5a60b67fd08e5cbbd; affected f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f before 9a415cc53711f2238e0f0ca8a6bcc796c003b127
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.12; unaffected 0 before 6.12; unaffected 6.12.92 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.34 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.11 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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