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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74637" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:16.755Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:06:04.262Z" 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-2026-74637" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74637.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74637" title: "perf/core: Fix group leader use-after-free after sibling detach" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/core: Fix group leader use-after-free after sibling detach\n\nperf_group_detach() handles leader and sibling detach differently. When the\ngroup leader is detached, all siblings are promoted to singleton events and\ntheir group_leader pointer is reset to themselves. When a sibling is\ndetached, it is removed from the leader's sibling_list, but its\ngroup_leader pointer is left pointing at the old leader.\n\nThat is harmless when the sibling is being closed and freed immediately, as\nin the DETACH_DEAD path. It is not safe when the sibling is detached but\nkept alive, such as during CPU hotplug with DETACH_GROUP. In that case the\nsibling is removed from the context, while its file descriptor can still\nkeep it alive.\n\nA typical failing sequence is:\n\n - A group contains leader L and sibling S.\n - CPU hot-unplug detaches S with DETACH_GROUP, removing it from\n L-\u003esibling_list but leaving S-\u003egroup_leader == L.\n - L is later closed and freed.\n - A PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP ioctl on S follows S-\u003egroup_leader and\n dereferences the freed leader.\n\nThis was reproduced by running the perf event fuzzer, CPU hotplug, and a\nstress workload concurrently:\n\n Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 006b6b6b6b6b6cdb\n CPU: 2 PID: 12489 Comm: perf_fuzzer 6.18.7 PREEMPT\n pc : perf_ioctl+0x34c/0xc68\n x20: ffffff89a3fa2c70 x8 : 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b\n Code: 943c4a0e 340047a0 f9404a94 f9411e88 (f940b908)\n Call trace:\n perf_ioctl+0x34c/0xc68 (P)\n __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa0/0xf4\n invoke_syscall+0x58/0xe4\n el0_svc_common+0xa8/0xdc\n do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28\n el0_svc+0x40/0xc0\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x68/0xdc\n el0t_64_sync+0x1c4/0x1c8\n\nThe fault happened in perf_ioctl(), where perf_event_for_each() follows\nthe stale group_leader pointer and perf_event_for_each_child() then\ndereferences the freed leader's context.\n\nFix the use-after-free by promoting the detached sibling to a singleton.\nAlso fix __event_disable() cgroup accounting and event state change." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f867c0e8da4c2303d91adf45acb6b1820966c27"},{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e92e03984364d93e0d5b0acd81c95eca773f034"},{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8a07021679aadfb6d63b209207ccc41f26982d1"},{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80c6054a4c40a0ffad82acef9f9a0dee108d152a"},{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b42948f9e0d1ea4dbd5742ce1dfc7688de5d4a35"},{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a979a642402d0b1f856c7a729b4cb2d92de4cf2f"},{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e7abfeb23c12bf46f6457e4a3e1a1a300d50619"},{"version":"8a49542c0554af7d0073aac0ee73ee65b807ef34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42c5ca1f0a288a52878bd72a5595b08261057438"},{"version":"e732ebc42aea321ee84514330eb3a675307fcc83","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2.6.34.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.35","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"version":"5.10.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.218","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.185","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.154","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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