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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68090" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:51:45.149Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:58:38.177Z" 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-2026-68090" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68090.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68090" title: "debugobjects: Plug race against a concurrent OOM disable" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndebugobjects: Plug race against a concurrent OOM disable\n\nsyzbot reported a puzzling splat:\n\n WARNING: kernel/time/hrtimer.c:443 at stub_timer+0xa/0x20\n\nstub_timer() is installed as timer callback function in\nhrtimer_fixup_assert_init(), which is invoked when\ndebug_object_assert_init() can't find a shadow object. In that case debug\nobjects emits a warning about it before invoking the fixup.\n\nThough the provided console log lacks this warning and instead has the\nfollowing a few seconds before the splat:\n\n ODEBUG: Out of memory. ODEBUG disabled\n\nSo the object was looked up in debug_object_assert_init() and the lookup\nfailed due a concurrent out of memory situation which disabled debug\nobjects and freed the shadow objects:\n\ndebug_object_assert_init()\n if (!debug_objects_enabled)\n \treturn; obj = alloc();\n \t\t\t\tif (!obj) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t// Out of memory\n \tdebug_objects_enabled = false;\n free_objects();\n obj = lookup_or_alloc();\n\n // The lookup failed because the other side\n // removed the objects, so this returns\n // an error code as the object in question\n // is not statically initialized\n\n\tif (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(obj))\n \treturn;\n if (!obj) {\n \tdebug_oom();\n return;\n }\n\n print(...)\n if (!debug_objects_enabled)\n return;\n\n fixup(...)\n\nThe debug object splat is skipped because debug_objects_enabled is false,\nbut the fixup callback is invoked unconditionally, which makes the timer\ndisfunctional.\n\nThis is only a problem in debug_object_assert_init() and\ndebug_object_activate() as both have to handle statically initialized\nobjects and therefore must handle the error pointer return case\ngracefully. All other places only handle the found/not found case and the\nNULL pointer return is a signal for OOM. Otherwise they get a valid shadow\nobject.\n\nPlug the hole by checking whether debug objects are still enabled before\ninvoking the print and fixup function in those two places." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d5e320b7ab9b25229ac4331541964a58b5e1d29"},{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"203a965bf2ab43130778d8214fb0c3c8c2d19cdf"},{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23da32e88627e63e0864f59f4c63a2dc0ab851a3"},{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d663fbf28b2eebe665bb9cf828d7d528e5a8707e"},{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2e255d07723c330dded8e576ce28a8d23a692ce"},{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c00164c9e7fa6145886ad666806cb5347895de5c"},{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f4f02b336c3be125c8fcf87df73db2e0e028b8b"},{"version":"b84d435cc228e87951f3bbabf6cc4a5f25d5fb16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b81dde13cc163450dcb402dcc915ef13ba241e01"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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