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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68283"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:15.088Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:02:18.147Z"
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-2026-68283"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68283.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68283"
title: "tracing: Fix use-after-free freeing trigger private data"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix use-after-free freeing trigger private data\n\nCommit 61d445af0a7c (\"tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing\nevent_trigger_data\") moved the kfree() of event_trigger_data to a kthread\nthat runs tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() before freeing. That removed\nthe synchronization the trigger .free callbacks used to get implicitly and\ninline from trigger_data_free().\n\nevent_hist_trigger_free(), event_hist_trigger_named_free() and\nevent_enable_trigger_free() free their satellite data (hist_data, cmd_ops,\nenable_data) right after trigger_data_free() returns. With the\nsynchronization now deferred to the kthread, a concurrent tracepoint\nhandler can still reach that data through the list_del_rcu()'d trigger,\ncausing a use-after-free.\n\nThe histogram teardown must stay synchronous: remove_hist_vars() and\nunregister_field_var_hists() have to detach a synthetic event from the\nhistogram before the trigger-removal write returns, otherwise a following\ncommand races in and the synthetic-event removal fails with -EBUSY, as the\ntrigger-synthetic-eprobe.tc selftest catches. Make those callbacks wait\nwith the correct barrier - tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(), matching\nthe free kthread - before freeing.\n\nThe enable trigger has no such synchronous requirement, and a blocking\nsynchronize there would re-serialize the path that commit deliberately\ndeferred. Give it an optional private_data_free() callback that the free\nkthread runs after its grace period, and free enable_data from there."
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