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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72080" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:29.827Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:26.766Z" 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-2026-72080" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72080.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72080" title: "fs/resctrl: Fix use-after-free during unmount" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/resctrl: Fix use-after-free during unmount\n\nDuring unmount or failure teardown all mon_data structures that contain\nmonitoring event file private data are freed after which kernfs nodes are\nremoved. However, the RDT_DELETED flag is never set for the statically\nallocated default resource group.\n\nA concurrent reader of an event file associated with the default resource\ngroup may, after dropping kernfs active protection, block on rdtgroup_mutex\nwhile unmount proceeds to free the file private data and destroy the kernfs\nnode without waiting for the reader.\n\nWhen the mutex is released, the reader wakes up, observes that RDT_DELETED\nis not set for the default group, and dereferences the already-freed\nfile private data.\n\nThe scenario can be depicted as follows:\n CPU0 CPU1\n /*\n * Default resource group's\n * monitoring data accessible via\n * kernfs file with kernfs_node::priv\n * pointing to a struct mon_data.\n * User opens the file for reading.\n */\n rdtgroup_mondata_show() /* arch encounters fatal error */\n rdtgroup_kn_lock_live() resctrl_exit()\n atomic_inc(&rdtgroup_default.waitcount) cpus_read_lock()\n kernfs_break_active_protection(kn) mutex_lock(&rdtgroup_mutex)\n cpus_read_lock() resctrl_fs_teardown()\n mutex_lock(&rdtgroup_mutex) rmdir_all_sub()\n mon_put_kn_priv()\n /* Delete all mon_data structures */\n rdtgroup_destroy_root()\n kernfs_destroy_root()\n rdtgroup_default.kn = NULL\n mutex_unlock(&rdtgroup_mutex)\n /*\n * rdtgroup_default.flags is empty so\n * rdtgroup_kn_lock_live() returns\n * &rdtgroup_default\n */\n md = of-\u003ekn-\u003epriv;\n\n /* md points to freed mon_data */\n\nSet RDT_DELETED for the default group unconditionally since the flag does\nnot lead to the freeing of this statically allocated group.\n\nDo not allow a new resctrl mount if there are any waiters on default group\nof previous mount. A new mount will re-initialize the default group that\nwould appear to waiters from previous mount as though the default group is\naccessible causing them to access the mon_data structures from the previous\nmount that have been removed." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2a65660385444e9d9deffe995c71ee20443ef76e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b7bb07efe41bb646a93c4624aa2bb35df190342"},{"version":"2a65660385444e9d9deffe995c71ee20443ef76e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d330a1d663381579b9d5dafa642b1b3158a0ce2"},{"version":"2a65660385444e9d9deffe995c71ee20443ef76e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52fce648607e0d6a76eeb443d78708c49df1c554"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.42","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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