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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72071"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:23.215Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:40:01.974Z"
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-2026-72071"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72071.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72071"
title: "tracing/user_events: Fix use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing/user_events: Fix use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup()\n\nuser_event_mm_dup() walks the parent mm's enabler list locklessly under\nrcu_read_lock() during fork() (from copy_process()); it does not take\nevent_mutex:\n\n\trcu_read_lock();\n\tlist_for_each_entry_rcu(enabler, &old_mm-\u003eenablers, mm_enablers_link)\n\t\tenabler-\u003eevent = user_event_get(orig-\u003eevent);\n\nuser_event_enabler_destroy() removes an enabler from that list with\nlist_del_rcu() and then, without waiting for a grace period, drops the\nenabler's user_event reference with user_event_put() and frees the enabler\nwith kfree(). A reader that loaded the enabler before the list_del_rcu()\ncan still be walking it, which leads to two use-after-frees:\n\n - kfree(enabler) frees the enabler while that reader dereferences\n   enabler-\u003eevent.\n\n - user_event_put() may drop the last reference to the user_event, which\n   is then freed (via delayed_destroy_user_event() on a work queue), while\n   the same reader does user_event_get(orig-\u003eevent) on it.\n\nBoth are reachable by an unprivileged task that can open user_events_data:\none multithreaded process that registers an enabler and then concurrently\nunregisters it and calls fork() triggers the race. KASAN reports a\nslab-use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup() during clone(), with a\n\"refcount_t: addition on 0\" warning when the user_event is freed.\n\nThe enabler use-after-free was found first; the user_event one was reported\nby XIAO WU, and the earlier enabler-only fix did not address it.\n\nDefer both the user_event_put() and the kfree(enabler) to a work item\nqueued with queue_rcu_work(), so they run only after an RCU grace period,\nonce all readers walking the enabler list have finished. The put must run\nin process context because user_event_put() takes event_mutex on the last\nreference, so a work queue is used rather than call_rcu(). The now-unlocked\nput lets the locked argument of user_event_enabler_destroy() be removed;\nall callers are updated."
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