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CVE-2026-89747 (GCVE-0-2026-89747)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:46 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:33
VLAI
Title
tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change Writing to buffer_subbuf_size_kb calls ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(), which frees every sub-buffer of the ring buffer, including the reader page, and replaces them with newly allocated ones. Readers of trace_pipe hold pointers into those pages. ring_buffer_peek() looks up an event under cpu_buffer->reader_lock but returns the event pointer after dropping the lock, and peek_next_entry() then calls ring_buffer_event_length() and ring_buffer_event_data() on it. If the sub-buffer order is changed in that window, the reader dereferences freed memory: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ring_buffer_peek+0x3e0/0x430 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88802a4cf010 by task syz-executor989/6002 Freed by: free_buffer_page kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:398 [inline] ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set+0x1325/0x18e0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7444 buffer_subbuf_size_write+0x182/0x280 kernel/trace/trace.c:8221 Take trace_access_lock(RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) around the order change. This is the lock trace_pipe readers already hold across their entire peek-and-print loop, so the swap can no longer race with a reader that is dereferencing a peeked event.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b , < 05ebe1e1d7d38c2612bacfefe043a33572ae34cb (git)
Affected: f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b , < ddbe921ed16a0ad2d9e09574c3f3aabec7528325 (git)
Affected: f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b , < 7a49d19ff9baaf61217e5ec14199c18bc2d93ee4 (git)
Affected: f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b , < 372f8534244d632ad5118e8a87a11291b01712d3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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