# 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-2026-68357"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:34.241Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:34:05.347Z"
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-2026-68357"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68357.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68357"
title: "watchdog: pretimeout: Fix UAF in watchdog_unregister_governor()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwatchdog: pretimeout: Fix UAF in watchdog_unregister_governor()\n\nWhen a watchdog governor is unregistered, it updates existing watchdog\ndevices that were using this governor by falling back to `default_gov`.\n\nIf the governor being unregistered is currently set as `default_gov`,\nthe `default_gov` is never cleared.  This leads to 2 use-after-free\nissues:\n1. New watchdog devices registered after this point will inherit the\n   dangling `default_gov`.\n2. Existing watchdog devices using the unregistered governor will have\n   their `wdd-\u003egov` reassigned to the dangling `default_gov`.\n\nFix the UAF by clearing `default_gov` if it matches the governor being\nunregistered."
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