# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43499"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-21T12:17:49.281Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:19:29.734Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43499"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43499.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43499"
title: "rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()\n\nremove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for\nproxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from\nfutex_requeue().\n\nIn the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()\noperates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several\nproblems:\n\n  1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held\n\n  2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a\n     dangling pointer primed for UAF around.\n\n  3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter\n     task\n\nUse waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in\nremove_waiter() to cure those problems.\n\n[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the\n  \tchangelog ]"
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