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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72069" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:21.752Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:26.463Z" 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-2026-72069" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72069.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72069" title: "locking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlocking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock()\n\nrt_spin_unlock() releases the RCU protection before unlocking the\nlock. That opens the door for the following UAF scenario:\n\n T1\t\t\t\t\tT2\n spin_lock(&p-\u003elock);\t\trcu_read_lock();\n invalidate(p);\t\t\tp = rcu_dereference(ptr);\n rcu_assign_pointer(ptr, NULL);\tif (!p) return;\n spin_unlock(&p-\u003elock);\t\tspin_lock(&p-\u003elock)\n \t\t\t\t lock(&lock-\u003elock);\n\t\t\t\t rcu_read_lock();\n kfree_rcu(p);\t\t\trcu_read_unlock();\n\t\t\t\t....\n\t\t\t\tspin_unlock(&p-\u003elock)\n\t\t\t\t rcu_read_unlock(); // Ends grace period\n rcu_do_batch()\n kfree(p);\n\t\t\t UAF -\u003e\t rt_mutex_cmpxchg_release(&lock-\u003elock...)\n\nRegular spinlocks keep preemption disabled accross the unlock operation,\nwhich provides full RCU protection, but the RT substitution fails to\nresemble that. Same applies for the rwlock substitution.\n\nMove the rcu_read_unlock() invocation past the unlock operations to match\nthe non-RT semantics. This makes it asymmetric vs. rt_xxx_lock(), but\nthat's harmless as the caller needs to hold RCU read lock across the lock\noperation. The migrate_enable() call stays before the unlock operation\nbecause there is no per CPU operation in the unlock path which would\nrequire migration to be kept disabled." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0f383b6dc96e976dfbf2721b0bf10bd96103b341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af28d801cd2db4cc7378554499bd4a5d84a5517e"},{"version":"0f383b6dc96e976dfbf2721b0bf10bd96103b341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d1fcd64ab81200e02b7a6db5eb1da8e244e8289"},{"version":"0f383b6dc96e976dfbf2721b0bf10bd96103b341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cfaac77b3c32ac3940df28866de263c3f45d24c"},{"version":"0f383b6dc96e976dfbf2721b0bf10bd96103b341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f0d56d3f1e88f20f6e46109402f8c15d59bac37"},{"version":"0f383b6dc96e976dfbf2721b0bf10bd96103b341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"633cadbc0b8323f5cc140a285d2432089dbb534e"},{"version":"0f383b6dc96e976dfbf2721b0bf10bd96103b341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83f9fb561c1c3917e19f95523dd933c7d30291aa"},{"version":"0f383b6dc96e976dfbf2721b0bf10bd96103b341","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89038cc87d80c77e7aa6f42a64b2573b74af339f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","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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