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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97935" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:49.820Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:44.309Z" 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-2026-97935" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97935.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97935" title: "tracing: Set the trace clock before registering the histogram trigger" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Set the trace clock before registering the histogram trigger\n\nhist_register_trigger() puts the trigger on the global named_triggers\nlist in cmd_ops-\u003einit(), and only then sets the trace clock:\n\n\tif (data-\u003ecmd_ops-\u003einit) {\n\t\tret = data-\u003ecmd_ops-\u003einit(data);\n\t\tif (ret \u003c 0)\n\t\t\tgoto out;\n\t}\n\n\tif (hist_data-\u003eenable_timestamps) {\n\t\tret = tracing_set_clock(file-\u003etr, hist_data-\u003eattrs-\u003eclock);\n\t\tif (ret) {\n\t\t\thist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_SET_CLOCK_FAIL, errpos(clock));\n\t\t\tgoto out;\n\t\t}\n\nThe clock string is not checked anywhere before that call, so a named\ntrigger using common_timestamp with an unknown clock fails after it has\nalready become findable. event_hist_trigger_parse() then frees it\nwithout taking it off the list, and the next lookup by name reads the\nfreed object:\n\n ~# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch\n ~# echo 'hist:name=foo:keys=common_pid:ts=common_timestamp:clock=bogus' \u003e trigger\n bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument\n ~# echo 'hist:name=foo:keys=common_pid' \u003e trigger\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800915d760 by task init/1\n find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0\n hist_register_trigger+0xc1/0x900\n event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3146/0x6af0\n event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160\n Freed by task 63:\n kfree+0x154/0x420\n trigger_kthread_fn+0xfd/0x160\n\nSet the clock before the trigger is registered, so that nothing which\ncan fail runs after it is published, the way commit 6f86bdeab633\n(\"tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list\") moved the\nregistration below the rest of the setup.\n\ntracing_set_filter_buffering() is reference counted, so the init failure\npath has to drop the reference that the clock block now takes first." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a4072fe85ba3671720cab0788291af953db27318","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"578d39ab420b18b76a12fc8d0573ec041a84da28"},{"version":"a4072fe85ba3671720cab0788291af953db27318","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc6c4cf565b0c187c61ffd2e67a4dfb2427675ad"},{"version":"a4072fe85ba3671720cab0788291af953db27318","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfad128171f8e2237a3c723d6478ef2cfb3b9127"},{"version":"a4072fe85ba3671720cab0788291af953db27318","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65d1e28198f344832a8a63e8ccf84b8f65b92a32"},{"version":"a4072fe85ba3671720cab0788291af953db27318","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ede78d0563a2a3ae3e46f9c07cedb5d79645429"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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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