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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64435"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:09.688Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:38:28.743Z"
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-2026-64435"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64435.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64435"
title: "audit: Fix data races of skb_queue_len() readers on audit_queue"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naudit: Fix data races of skb_queue_len() readers on audit_queue\n\nMultiple readers access audit_queue.qlen via skb_queue_len() without\nholding the queue lock or using READ_ONCE(), while kauditd writes to\nthis field via the skb_dequeue() → __skb_unlink() path with WRITE_ONCE()\nprotected by a spinlock. This constitutes data races.\n\nAll affected skb_queue_len(&audit_queue) call sites:\n  - kauditd_thread() wait_event_freezable() condition\n  - audit_receive_msg() AUDIT_GET handler (s.backlog assignment)\n  - audit_receive() backlog check\n  - audit_log_start() backlog check and pr_warn()\n\nKCSAN reports the following conflicting access pattern (one example):\n==================================================================\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / skb_dequeue\n\nwrite (marked) to 0xffffffff8512ee20 of 4 bytes by task 661 on cpu 57:\n skb_dequeue+0x70/0xf0\n kauditd_send_queue+0x71/0x220\n kauditd_thread+0x1cb/0x430\n kthread+0x1c2/0x210\n ret_from_fork+0x162/0x1a0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nread to 0xffffffff8512ee20 of 4 bytes by task 36586 on cpu 1:\n audit_log_start+0x2a0/0x6b0\n audit_core_dumps+0x64/0xa0\n do_coredump+0x14b/0x1260\n get_signal+0xeb2/0xf70\n arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x41/0x170\n exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xa2/0x1c0\n do_syscall_64+0x1a3/0x1c0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0xe0\n\nvalue changed: 0x00000001 -\u003e 0x00000000\n==================================================================\n\nResolve the race by switching to lockless helper skb_queue_len_lockless(),\nwhich internally uses READ_ONCE() and properly pairs with the WRITE_ONCE()\nwrite accesses already present on the writer side.\n\n[PM: line length tweak]"
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