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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80730" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-03T08:21:48.325Z" updatedAt: "2026-09-03T08:21:48.325Z" 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-2026-80730" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80730.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80730" title: "ring-buffer: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()\n\nIn test_ringbuffer()'s out_free cleanup loop, the check\n`!rb_threads[cpu]` only catches NULL entries and misses entries that\nhold an ERR_PTR.\n\nrb_threads[] is static, so unassigned slots are NULL. But when\nkthread_run_on_cpu() fails for a cpu, it stores ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) (or\n-EINTR) in rb_threads[cpu] before the creation loop jumps to out_free.\nThat entry is non-NULL, so the old `!ptr` check does not break, and the\ncleanup proceeds to call kthread_stop() on the ERR_PTR. kthread_stop()\nthen dereferences the bogus pointer, crashing the kernel during the\nlate_initcall self-test.\n\ncrash logs:\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001c\n Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc6-dirty #7 PREEMPT(lazy)\n RIP: 0010:kthread_stop+0x2e/0x220\n RBX: fffffffffffffff4\n CR2: 000000000000001c\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n test_ringbuffer+0x1ec/0x650\n do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x2c0\n kernel_init_freeable+0x21d/0x420\n kernel_init+0x15/0x1c0\n ret_from_fork+0x21b/0x320\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"64ed3a049e3e81b801e7c5bb052416152443f585","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51d78fad30dd9ae45721224103662bdbcf210096"},{"version":"64ed3a049e3e81b801e7c5bb052416152443f585","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93e7044b548a72022208595d2c1b188bb225ce83"},{"version":"64ed3a049e3e81b801e7c5bb052416152443f585","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8532983c312e8b875d7c9e440f8ee4674ea4b711"},{"version":"64ed3a049e3e81b801e7c5bb052416152443f585","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6dd7a06894d6d3dc84319bd0b7d1a7c27df9d902"},{"version":"64ed3a049e3e81b801e7c5bb052416152443f585","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ea2fd344d93e3cf9503739b09fd702c0d8f8f0b"},{"version":"64ed3a049e3e81b801e7c5bb052416152443f585","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91542863abade2fd4f2b361991f5386ad9d19c8c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.104","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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