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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80916" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-09T16:13:14.587Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:00.547Z" 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-2026-80916" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80916.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80916" title: "kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT\n\nsyzbot is reporting KCOV state corruption on PREEMPT_RT kernels, for the\ntemporary storage used for saving/restoring remote KCOV state is currently\nallocated as the per-CPU area.\n\nOn PREEMPT_RT kernels, softirq handlers run as preemptible task threads\n(e.g., ksoftirqd). If a softirq context preempts a task running a remote\nKCOV session, it safely saves the task's state into the per-CPU area.\nHowever, if that softirq thread is subsequently preempted by a higher-\npriority softirq thread on the same CPU, the second softirq will overwrite\nthe same per-CPU area, permanently destroying the original task's KCOV\nstate.\n\nFix this data corruption by moving the temporary storage from the per-CPU\narea to the per-thread area. Since each softirq thread now owns its own\ntask context, nested softirq preemption no longer causes data overwrites.\n\nNote that while the temporary storage is now on a per-thread basis, the\nper-CPU kcov_percpu_data.lock must be retained, for we need to ensure that\nkcov_remote_start() and kcov_remote_stop() operate atomically without\nracing against asynchronous interrupts that manipulate the current task's\nKCOV state.\n\nIt is likely that GFP_KERNEL allocation by vmalloc_node() in kcov_init()\nhas already called panic() before returning NULL, for there will be no\nOOM-killable userspace processes when __init function of built-in module\nruns. But this patch also fixes crashing the kernel when vmalloc_node()\nin kcov_init() returned NULL, for kcov_init() left per-CPU irq_area == NULL\nbut kcov_remote_start() depends on per-CPU irq_area != NULL, resulting in\n\n (1) doing vmalloc() in kcov_remote_start() despite !in_task() context\n\n (2) out-of-array-bounds access if (1) succeeded but\n kcov-\u003eremote_size \u003c CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE\n\n (3) always leak memory allocated by (1), eventually killing all\n OOM-killable userspace processes\n\nproblems." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef7048d8a614c5f5a9b20513a5428101a744514e"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ed3ddf23d39bf5338406bd9f8863d44748cf6ce"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5dc59fc959b2b5742985d7ef24bccd1868217dc2"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2fb8222cde23b0001812ed3acb7c0ea36dd94e2"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18799e858b407bf355383c9dd6c06477aa437134"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e11f5b48c82703242a3be7a7ae4b4940b4cb4610"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22670d1552fe155822b2abf91f920925f7d067b4"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8c9a3ec36b4ee3d4701b9be08f40e7bfbf89761"},{"version":"5ff3b30ab57da82d8db4f14662a2858cabfbc2c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2eed77fdcb0cc48e8eccb2bcd4b7f2c6d650e84c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.269","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.220","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":"6.12.106","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.47","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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