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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90003" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:13.420Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:56:17.256Z" 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-2026-90003" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90003.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90003" title: "futex: Prevent rcuwait use-after-free during requeue PI" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfutex: Prevent rcuwait use-after-free during requeue PI\n\nOn PREEMPT_RT, FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI can trigger a KASAN report\n(slab-out-of-bounds) in futex_requeue_pi_complete() invocation of\nrcuwait_wake_up().\n\nThe futex_q used by futex_wait_requeue_pi() is allocated on the waiter's\nstack. An early wakeup can race with a PI requeue as follows:\n\n waiter requeue task\n ------ ------------\nfutex_wait_requeue_pi()\n futex_do_wait()\n schedule()\n futex_requeue\n futex_proxy_trylock_atomic()\n futex_requeue_pi_prepare()\n Q_REQUEUE_PI_NONE -\u003e Q_REQUEUE_PI_IN_PROGRESS\n* timeout/ signal wakes waiter *\n futex_requeue_pi_wakeup_sync()\n Q_REQUEUE_PI_IN_PROGRESS -\u003e Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT\n requeue_pi_wake_futex\n futex_requeue_pi_complete()\n cmpxchg Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT -\u003e Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED\n rcuwait_wait_event()\n if (atomic_read(&q-\u003erequeue_state) != Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT)\n break /* no schedule() */\n\n /* q.pi_state-\u003eowner == current */\n futex_private_hash_put()\n /* return from syscall */\n rcuwait_wake_up(&q-\u003erequeue_wait)\n /* q is gone */\n\nfutex_requeue_pi_complete() publishes Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED before\ncalling rcuwait_wake_up(). The waiter observes this state in\nrcuwait_wait_event() before invoking schedule() in rcuwait_wait_event().\nHere, the waiter is free leave the syscall before requeue task can\ncomplete the wake.\n\nTo address this race skip rcuwait_wake_up() in the Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED\ncase.\nThis state is only published by requeue_pi_wake_futex(), which saves\nq-\u003etask before futex_requeue_pi_complete() and wakes the waiter via\nwake_up_state().\n\nThis wake is intended to wake the waiter from its futex_do_wait() sleep.\nIf the waiter is still sleeping there, it can not get into the\nQ_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT state (and require this removed wake).\nShould the waiter be woken up from futex_do_wait() by other means (as in\nthis example) and sleep in futex_requeue_pi_wakeup_sync() then the\nwake_up_state() from requeue_pi_wake_futex() will wake it, too.\nShould the waiter task terminate before wake_up_state() had a chance to\nwake the task then the task pointer does not become invalid because the\nfutex_hash_bucket::lock is held and the task pointer is RCU protected.\n\n[bigeasy: Updated comment and commit message]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"07d91ef510fb16a2e0ca7453222105835b7ba3b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"220ee9e04ca3b7f014c000264aa6c884f036c86e"},{"version":"07d91ef510fb16a2e0ca7453222105835b7ba3b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81aadbd09bf1dcd3238212f336ba699503557ae8"},{"version":"07d91ef510fb16a2e0ca7453222105835b7ba3b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"244f301759fd34b1dd0b4192ce44f8ef224e027d"},{"version":"07d91ef510fb16a2e0ca7453222105835b7ba3b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d1559126d86be6e4f6a85663dfbfe85caa47e37"},{"version":"07d91ef510fb16a2e0ca7453222105835b7ba3b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4a4ccfa470f910b747b3ee8d18670ed8ac8a236"},{"version":"07d91ef510fb16a2e0ca7453222105835b7ba3b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3b8d46fe401cba3a5c46dea610e6eb3dc15370e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","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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