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CVE-2026-43499 (GCVE-0-2026-43499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-21 12:17 – Updated: 2026-08-26 19:01
VLAI
Title
rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter() remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from futex_requeue(). In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter() operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several problems: 1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held 2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a dangling pointer primed for UAF around. 3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter task Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in remove_waiter() to cure those problems. [ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the changelog ]
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-22 03:55 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < f3fa3424bceb128d2be4b3745506b22844b87db7 (git)
Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < 838ce5cb5d93c3ab8b27e75bc6ad905a94b752fd (git)
Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < d8cce4773c2b23d819baf5abedc62f7b430e8745 (git)
Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < 8a1fc8d698ac5e5916e3082a0f74450d71f9611f (git)
Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < 6d52dfcb2a5db86e346cf51f8fcf2071b8085166 (git)
Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < 3fb7394a837740770f0d6b4b30567e60786a63f2 (git)
Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < 88614876370aac8ad1050ad785a4c095ba17ac11 (git)
Affected: 8161239a8bcce9ad6b537c04a1fa3b5c68bae693 , < 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.39
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.39 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.86 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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