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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97903" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:29.852Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:29.542Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97903" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97903.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97903" title: "exit: hold a reference to thread_pid across proc_flush_pid" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexit: hold a reference to thread_pid across proc_flush_pid\n\nCommit 0a36bad01731 (\"release_task: kill the no longer needed\nget/put_pid(thread_pid)\") removed the reference around proc_flush_pid().\nIt assumed that free_pids(post.pids) at the end of release_task() would\nkeep thread_pid alive until then.\n\nThat assumption is wrong. __change_pid() only records a detached PID in\npost.pids when pid_has_task() is false for every PIDTYPE. If another task\nstill uses the exiting task's PID as its process group or session ID,\n__unhash_process() removes the exiting task's PIDTYPE_PID link but leaves\nthe PID out of post.pids. release_task() therefore holds no reference to\nit after dropping tasklist_lock.\n\nThe other task can then remove the remaining PIDTYPE links. Its\nfree_pids() call schedules delayed_put_pid(), and the RCU callback can free\nthe PID before the first release_task() reaches proc_flush_pid().\n\nAn unprivileged reproducer races wait4(-1) against setsid() to trigger this\nordering. Three of three fresh v7.2 KASAN boots reported:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in\n proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache+0x3e2/0x3f0\n Read of size 8 by task h7_pid_reaper/1921\n\n Call Trace:\n proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache\n release_task\n wait_consider_task\n __do_wait\n do_wait\n kernel_wait4\n\n Freed by task 0:\n kmem_cache_free\n put_pid\n delayed_put_pid\n rcu_core\n\n Last potentially related work creation:\n __call_rcu_common\n free_pids\n ksys_setsid\n\nKASAN identified a 144-byte object from the pid cache and located the bad\nread 80 bytes into the freed object, matching pid-\u003einodes. With an\nexplicit reference, three of three fresh boots completed without a KASAN\nreport. The concurrent RCU callback dropped its reference while\nproc_flush_pid() was protected, and the balancing put_pid() performed the\nfinal free afterward.\n\nTake a reference before __unhash_process() clears p-\u003ethread_pid and release\nit after proc_flush_pid() completes.\n\nA tested source reproducer is available privately on request. No\ncontrolled read or write, information leak, or privilege escalation is\nclaimed. The mainline patch applies directly to v6.19.y and newer;\nv6.16.y through v6.18.y need a context-adjusted backport." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0a36bad01731e71568bdd365764d38b6bd576ab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bcb0936862f2b653114d9bd582ca26990ef54a64"},{"version":"0a36bad01731e71568bdd365764d38b6bd576ab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96803a12e8ac15f0a1b4b151db59038f12304e58"},{"version":"0a36bad01731e71568bdd365764d38b6bd576ab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cdd812d0683dee14ead02c9eded568685e61b23f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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