# 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-2026-64425"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:03.036Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:23:50.155Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64425"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64425.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64425"
title: "io_uring/io-wq: re-check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT for each linked work item"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/io-wq: re-check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT for each linked work item\n\ncommit 10dc95939817 (\"io_uring/io-wq: check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT inside work\nrun loop\") fixed the obvious case where io_worker_handle_work() took one\nexit-bit snapshot before draining pending work, but the fix stops one\nlevel too early.\n\nio_worker_handle_work() now re-checks IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT in its outer work\nrun loop, yet it still snapshots that bit once before processing a whole\ndependent linked-work chain. If io_wq_exit_start() sets IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT\nafter the first linked item has started, the remaining linked items can\nstill reuse stale do_kill = false, skip IO_WQ_WORK_CANCEL, and continue\nrunning after exit has begun.\n\nMove the check further inside, so it covers linked items too. Note: this\nis a syzbot special as it loves setting up tons of slow linked work on\nweird devices like msr that take forever to read, and immediately close\nthe ring. Exit then takes a long time."
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