# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89749"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:53.822Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:03.128Z"
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-2026-89749"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89749.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89749"
title: "tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()\n\nevent_test_stuff() calls kthread_run() and unconditionally passes the\nreturned task_struct pointer to kthread_stop(). kthread_run() returns an\nerror pointer such as ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) when kthread creation fails, for\nexample under memory pressure during the boot-time event self-test.\nkthread_stop() then dereferences the invalid pointer, crashing the kernel.\n\nCheck the result of kthread_run() before passing it to kthread_stop(). Use\nWARN_ON() so that a failure to create the self-test thread does not go\nunnoticed, matching the ring-buffer self-test fix in commit\n91542863abad (\"ring-buffer: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()\")."
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