# 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-2026-46173"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:36:27.892Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:53.446Z"
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-2026-46173"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46173.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46173"
title: "exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task\n\nWhen an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls\ndo_task_dead() with preemption enabled.  That is forbidden:\ndo_task_dead() calls __schedule(), which has a comment saying \"WARNING:\nmust be called with preemption disabled!\".\n\nIf an oopsing task is preempted in do_task_dead(), between becoming\nTASK_DEAD and entering the scheduler explicitly, bad things happen:\nfinish_task_switch() assumes that once the scheduler has switched away\nfrom a TASK_DEAD task, the task can never run again and its stack is no\nlonger needed; but that assumption apparently doesn't hold if the dead\ntask was preempted (the SM_PREEMPT case).\n\nThis means that the scheduler ends up repeatedly dropping references on\nthe dead task's stack, which can lead to use-after-free or double-free\nof the entire task stack; in other words, two tasks can end up running\non the same stack, resulting in various kinds of memory corruption.\n\n(This does not just affect \"recursively oopsing\" tasks; it is enough to\noops once during task exit, for example in a file_operations::release\nhandler)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d6fb8a7690c23e3213c4b008f64d89a44b98737"},{"version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"640b4c00fb0e2920327435f6176cbefc3c546165"},{"version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b2800ba5f5f77a8ee7f4cbadb19cf1264597a34"},{"version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f49f94f3b11fe8bff1bf2a054143789e76aaf17"},{"version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9756b3db5db6c2f5eccb32dddbd88eb4c54f575e"},{"version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1fa0bb633e4a6b11e83ffc57fa5abe8ebb87891"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"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"}]

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