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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46106" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:35:11.034Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:54:53.367Z" 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-2026-46106" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46106.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46106" title: "eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events\n\nCommit 340f0c7067a9 (\"eventfs: Update all the eventfs_inodes from the\nevents descriptor\") had eventfs_set_attrs() recurse through ei-\u003echildren\non remount. The walk only holds the rcu_read_lock() taken by\ntracefs_apply_options() over tracefs_inodes, which is wrong:\n\n - list_for_each_entry over ei-\u003echildren races with the list_del_rcu()\n in eventfs_remove_rec() -- LIST_POISON1 deref, same shape as\n d2603279c7d6.\n - eventfs_inodes are freed via call_srcu(&eventfs_srcu, ...).\n rcu_read_lock() does not extend an SRCU grace period, so ti-\u003eprivate\n can be reclaimed under the walk.\n - The writes to ei-\u003eattr race with eventfs_set_attr(), which holds\n eventfs_mutex.\n\nReproducer:\n\n while :; do mount -o remount,uid=$((RANDOM%1000)) /sys/kernel/tracing; done &\n while :; do\n echo \"p:kp submit_bio\" \u003e /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events\n echo \u003e /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events\n done\n\nWrap the events portion of tracefs_apply_options() in\neventfs_remount_lock()/_unlock() that take eventfs_mutex and\nsrcu_read_lock(&eventfs_srcu). eventfs_set_attrs() doesn't sleep so the\nnested rcu_read_lock() is fine; lockdep_assert_held() pins the contract.\n\nComment in tracefs_drop_inode() said \"RCU cycle\" -- it is SRCU." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7ec535ed8724d18ae4e714d2277a5b89450659d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae9cd0b46b1890040006a2fc5e905c5d6053fd02"},{"version":"340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44e64d8a432837308f4dda3ffe819f1ec092a0ba"},{"version":"340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52b109f1b875b912d4ab2c5fdd8c322d47119d9b"},{"version":"340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed2ad73bcb0a7a6cc934097d4853b6d5124c317e"},{"version":"340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07004a8c4b572171934390148ee48c4175c77eed"},{"version":"99b86d85f7c73d676c50e8c35748f94dd41389da","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.35","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.140"},{"version":"6.9.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.6.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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