CVE-2026-97919 (GCVE-0-2026-97919)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-25 10:22 – Updated: 2026-10-21 12:53
VLAI
Title
tracing: Take the reference before publishing the named histogram trigger
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Take the reference before publishing the named histogram trigger event_hist_trigger_named_init() puts the trigger on the global named_triggers list and only then takes the reference on the trigger it shares its histogram with: data->ref++; save_named_trigger(data->named_data->name, data); ret = event_hist_trigger_init(data->named_data); if (ret < 0) { kfree(data->cmd_ops); data->cmd_ops = &trigger_hist_cmd; } return ret; event_hist_trigger_init() fails when alloc_hist_pad() cannot allocate, and nothing takes the trigger back off the list on the way out. event_hist_trigger_parse() frees it, and the next lookup by name reads the freed object: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888009346860 by task init/1 find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 hist_register_trigger+0xc1/0xa00 event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3146/0x6af0 event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160 Freed by task 67: kfree+0x154/0x420 trigger_kthread_fn+0xfd/0x160 Do the reference first and publish once it has succeeded, so that nothing which can fail runs after the trigger becomes findable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6856 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ac7ab38c271ba2edaeb0dc35b200ec13339776ae , < e5c5dad169fb569161d3eed6c3f6a59e65db1830 (git)
Affected: e53a8dcd36b9ebc9229450eb594ae20e0b2ae0fd , < b6fb2f5370a9a6aec325ab2db1ca3d1a881499b8 (git)
Affected: 7ab0fc61ce73040f89b12d76a8279995ec283541 , < 2ffaade3611bd9501bc0b9d5d19fc75bfee7a16b (git)
Affected: 7ab0fc61ce73040f89b12d76a8279995ec283541 , < 91c15cdda6033e2439f5975b938754152f3d6e38 (git)
Affected: 7ab0fc61ce73040f89b12d76a8279995ec283541 , < 0fe23b8eaba0d3372c66b7b31204408da0715edc (git)
Affected: 740dab2338f70d93aa8235db5a9541d846d7b21c (git)
Affected: 6.6.94 , < 6.6.160 (semver)
Affected: 6.12.34 , < 6.12.112 (semver)
Affected: 6.15.3 , < 6.16 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.7 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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