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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74601" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:50.092Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:06:00.447Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74601" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74601.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74601" title: "ring-buffer: Use current_context for safe per-CPU buffer swap" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Use current_context for safe per-CPU buffer swap\n\nThe ring_buffer_swap_cpu() function currently checks the per-CPU\ncommitting counter to determine if a buffer is actively being written to\nbefore performing the swap. However, there exists a race window where\nthis check can be bypassed:\n\n ring_buffer_lock_reserve\n cpu_buffer = buffer-\u003ebuffers[cpu]; // cpu_buffer_a\n rb_reserve_next_event\n rb_start_commit // inc committing\n if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer-\u003ebuffer) != buffer)) {...}\n __rb_reserve_next\n rb_move_tail\n rb_end_commit(cpu_buffer); // dec committing =\u003e 0\n /* interrupt hits here, successfully swaps! */\n local_inc(&cpu_buffer-\u003ecommitting);\n\n ring_buffer_unlock_commit\n cpu_buffer = buffer-\u003ebuffers[cpu]; // cpu_buffer_b\n rb_commit\n rb_end_commit\n RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer-\u003ecommitting))\n // triggers warning\n\nThe committing counter can temporarily drop to 0 during a single write\noperation (within rb_move_tail), creating a window where swap can\nsucceed even though the write is still in progress. This leads to\ninconsistent buffer state and triggers the RB_WARN_ON in rb_commit().\n\nReplace the committing counter check with current_context checks, which\nare set at the entry of ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and remain valid\nthroughout the entire write operation, providing a reliable indicator of\nbuffer busy state during swap." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26662bc8fced1d668fa1aa146eda085bfc67bd0b"},{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b524e6b234e45c7f5f90d13b042c6f57f80105c"},{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"597f279b7b4a06412e3d965e98cc36e181cdbede"},{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22709117d9ae95e52673685f98caac7c356a8227"},{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad7e10c7ea89af45ac1bf1814855d45da472703d"},{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b926fb04cb9ef3156dcf88c69a59d3d1a1c4f9f"},{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e6e2a18c20e88167d414f666032792e8bf19b80"},{"version":"4239c38fe0b3847e1e6d962c74b41b08ba0e2990","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f27bdc43077e4fcb5557dfc315ee8d91e741f483"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","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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