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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26737"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-03T17:00:23.414Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:26:56.105Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26737"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26737.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26737"
title: "bpf: Fix racing between bpf_timer_cancel_and_free and bpf_timer_cancel"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix racing between bpf_timer_cancel_and_free and bpf_timer_cancel\n\nThe following race is possible between bpf_timer_cancel_and_free\nand bpf_timer_cancel. It will lead a UAF on the timer-\u003etimer.\n\nbpf_timer_cancel();\n\tspin_lock();\n\tt = timer-\u003etime;\n\tspin_unlock();\n\n\t\t\t\t\tbpf_timer_cancel_and_free();\n\t\t\t\t\t\tspin_lock();\n\t\t\t\t\t\tt = timer-\u003etimer;\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttimer-\u003etimer = NULL;\n\t\t\t\t\t\tspin_unlock();\n\t\t\t\t\t\thrtimer_cancel(&t-\u003etimer);\n\t\t\t\t\t\tkfree(t);\n\n\t/* UAF on t */\n\thrtimer_cancel(&t-\u003etimer);\n\nIn bpf_timer_cancel_and_free, this patch frees the timer-\u003etimer\nafter a rcu grace period. This requires a rcu_head addition\nto the \"struct bpf_hrtimer\". Another kfree(t) happens in bpf_timer_init,\nthis does not need a kfree_rcu because it is still under the\nspin_lock and timer-\u003etimer has not been visible by others yet.\n\nIn bpf_timer_cancel, rcu_read_lock() is added because this helper\ncan be used in a non rcu critical section context (e.g. from\na sleepable bpf prog). Other timer-\u003etimer usages in helpers.c\nhave been audited, bpf_timer_cancel() is the only place where\ntimer-\u003etimer is used outside of the spin_lock.\n\nAnother solution considered is to mark a t-\u003eflag in bpf_timer_cancel\nand clear it after hrtimer_cancel() is done.  In bpf_timer_cancel_and_free,\nit busy waits for the flag to be cleared before kfree(t). This patch\ngoes with a straight forward solution and frees timer-\u003etimer after\na rcu grace period."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5268bb02107b9eedfdcd51db75b407d10043368c"},{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"addf5e297e6cbf5341f9c07720693ca9ba0057b5"},{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8327ed12e8ebc5436bfaa1786c49988894f9c8a6"},{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d80a9e745fa5b47da3bca001f186c02485c7c33"},{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0281b919e175bb9c3128bd3872ac2903e9436e3f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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