CVE-2026-99249 (GCVE-0-2026-99249)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-11-03 11:18 – Updated: 2026-11-03 11:18
VLAI
Title
pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable When the init of a pid namespace exits, zap_pid_ns_processes() waits until all other pids in the namespace are freed. A tracer outside the namespace that does not reap its traced zombies keeps those pids allocated, so this wait has no upper bound, and while it lasts every suspend attempt fails: Freezing user space processes failed after 20.006 seconds (2 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0): Neither wait is freezable. The first loop sleeps in do_wait(), which returns -ERESTARTSYS on the freezer's fake signal; the loop then clears TIF_SIGPENDING and waits again without ever freezing. The final loop sleeps in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, and since nothing clears TIF_SIGPENDING there, schedule() returns immediately after the first freeze attempt and the task spins until the wait ends. Sleep in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_FREEZABLE in do_wait(), so that the freezer can freeze tasks waiting there directly, and in TASK_IDLE | TASK_FREEZABLE in the final loop, like coredump_task_exit() does. This was hit with Chromium-based browsers: crashpad ptrace-attaches the threads of a crashed renderer, which is a pid namespace init, and does not reap those killed during the dump.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6651 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3eb07c8c8adb6f0572baba844ba2d9e501654316 , < 064a6761d6f6ac55d090d3eaca649577ee736713 (git)
Affected: 3eb07c8c8adb6f0572baba844ba2d9e501654316 , < e8dafad7de9ede813af2d48cc04b7c88fef16682 (git)
Affected: 3eb07c8c8adb6f0572baba844ba2d9e501654316 , < 4b47107f1a80c809c80093e872bcaccdbae13db4 (git)
Affected: 3eb07c8c8adb6f0572baba844ba2d9e501654316 , < 2e10b8a74f55b5aae33db105d3e2d3ae759c865a (git)
Affected: 3eb07c8c8adb6f0572baba844ba2d9e501654316 , < 7deb5770840339fe88755bf27b92f74edc26ee87 (git)
Affected: 3eb07c8c8adb6f0572baba844ba2d9e501654316 , < 81933038f5e273d17ed22792f906889393b204c5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.24
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.24 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.161 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.115 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.59 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.13 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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