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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90140" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:37.824Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:58:38.281Z" 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-2026-90140" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90140.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90140" title: "cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit\n\nSince commit 053fc4f755ad (\"fuse: fix UAF in rcu pathwalks\"),\nfuse_conn_put() frees the fuse_conn through call_rcu() rather than\nsynchronously. For cuse, fc-\u003erelease is cuse_fc_release(), which\nlives in the cuse module. If the module is removed before the RCU\ngrace period ends, the callback jumps into freed module memory:\n\n userspace / module unload | RCU softirq\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n close(/dev/cuse) |\n cuse_channel_release() |\n fuse_dev_release() |\n fuse_conn_put(fch-\u003econn) |\n call_rcu(delayed_release) ------+---\u003e callback queued\n |\n rmmod cuse |\n cuse_exit() |\n cuse_channel_destroy() |\n ... |\n return |\n |\n \u003cmodule text freed\u003e |\n | rcu_do_batch()\n | delayed_release()\n | fc-\u003erelease()\n | -\u003e cuse_fc_release()\n | ^^^ freed text!\n\nThe freed module text is unmapped by vfree(), so the jump into the\nstale callback triggers a page-fault Oops. If the virtual address\nis subsequently reused, the callback could execute unrelated code\n(undefined behaviour).\n\nFix this by calling rcu_barrier() in cuse_exit() so that any pending\nfuse_conn release callback completes before the module is removed." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bfbab62ca69f72bcd14ea30de1fb98f6080ad464","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fe415e1cd8fa875be263670c0ab47109818abb6"},{"version":"a8f650b93e55764ca9ff8e1ddebc151f57024086","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45ae914b2f6ea56fc2f1c017fdee4e995bcb4c0e"},{"version":"535e9bd0e8f8d8cfdc29de7cdb902b5041427fe6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac5c499413385cea3e0220d6050408d50842891d"},{"version":"053fc4f755ad43cf35210677bcba798ccdc48d0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1b46aee33d83f14ed62d7fdef1a91d3e0b732a9"},{"version":"053fc4f755ad43cf35210677bcba798ccdc48d0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"389bd349ddbcf90dbd8a4f2a4ab6e552d53df134"},{"version":"053fc4f755ad43cf35210677bcba798ccdc48d0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c40f3f24839f8404325a2099e26c2a04786ae309"},{"version":"053fc4f755ad43cf35210677bcba798ccdc48d0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4deb3edead0c0e172cc7349e8855d741d3c5e162"},{"version":"5.15.166","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.221"},{"version":"6.1.107","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.188"},{"version":"6.6.48","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.157"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"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":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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