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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89746" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:51.529Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:00.175Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89746" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89746.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89746" title: "tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers\n\nWhen two hist triggers on different events are registered with the same\nname=, the second one reuses the first as named_data. Both are added to\ntr-\u003ehist_vars by save_hist_vars() during event_hist_trigger_parse(),\nbecause save_hist_vars() is called before event_trigger_register() while\nthe named reuse is only detected later, in hist_register_trigger().\n\nIn the named-data branch hist_register_trigger() then frees the second\nhistogram's hist_data via destroy_hist_data(), but never removes its\ntr-\u003ehist_vars list entry, leaving a dangling pointer and leaking the\ntrace_array reference it holds.\n\nA later hist trigger that references a variable makes find_var_file()\nwalk tr-\u003ehist_vars and dereference the freed hist_data. The bug is\nreproducible from userspace by writing three hist triggers to tracefs:\n\n cd /sys/kernel/tracing\n echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=common_pid:name=mh' \u003e events/sched/sched_switch/trigger\n echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=common_pid:name=mh' \u003e events/sched/sched_process_fork/trigger\n echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:vals=$x' \u003e events/sched/sched_process_exit/trigger\n\nThe third write panics the kernel:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_var_file.part.0+0x272/0x290\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff888001f8a0e0 by task sh/1\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: sh Tainted: G D N\n Call Trace:\n find_var_file.part.0\n find_event_var\n parse_atom\n parse_expr\n __create_val_field\n event_hist_trigger_parse\n trigger_process_regex\n event_trigger_write\n vfs_write\n ksys_write\n do_syscall_64\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe\n Allocated by task 1:\n event_hist_trigger_parse\n Freed by task 1:\n hist_register_trigger+0x618/0xa30\n event_hist_trigger_parse\n The buggy address belongs to freed 2048-byte region\n Oops: general protection fault ... RIP: find_var_file.part.0\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b\n\nFix by removing the hist_data from tr-\u003ehist_vars and releasing the\ntrace_array reference in the named-data branch of hist_register_trigger()\nbefore freeing the hist_data." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5ae1b18f05ee2b849dc03b6c15d7da0c1c6efa77","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"441aa6742dff70297b5f64533a07a6189a026e91"},{"version":"43b254d46c740bf9dbe65709afa021dd726dfa99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a8534664426c071c2dfb5b4ffa36b18a2abfd79"},{"version":"435d2964af815aae456db554c62963b4515f19d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"477d762be4b0ffaf01429ccd88859e93b0ec28cc"},{"version":"6f86bdeab633a56d5c6dccf1a2c5989b6a5e323e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1a49c22de01faf176d44e5caa765e237353a579"},{"version":"6f86bdeab633a56d5c6dccf1a2c5989b6a5e323e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83d1ae0406d8eade219a81b401e201702dd9dc55"},{"version":"6f86bdeab633a56d5c6dccf1a2c5989b6a5e323e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7318172aa332a161fb9618286e64454c827f8fd"},{"version":"f1ae50cfb818ce1ac7a674406dfadb7653e2552d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.188"},{"version":"6.6.81","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.157"},{"version":"6.12.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.109"},{"version":"6.13.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","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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