# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97938"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:51.720Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:45.385Z"
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-2026-97938"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97938.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97938"
title: "reboot: fix cad_pid use-after-free race"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nreboot: fix cad_pid use-after-free race\n\ncad_pid is a single kernel-wide struct pid pointer. proc_do_cad_pid()\nreads it and passes it to pid_vnr() without protecting the lifetime of\nthe referenced struct pid. A concurrent writer can replace cad_pid and\ndrop the final reference to the old struct pid after the reader has\nloaded the pointer but before pid_vnr() has finished dereferencing it,\ncausing a use-after-free.\n\nkill_cad_pid() has the same lifetime race when it passes cad_pid to\nkill_pid().\n\nAt the time this issue was reported, an unprivileged user could reach the\nsysctl through user and PID namespaces because cad_pid was registered in\npid_table[]. Moving cad_pid back to the global reboot sysctl table\ncorrected that namespace and permission mismatch, but did not fix the\nunderlying lifetime race.\n\nFix this by treating cad_pid as an RCU-protected pointer at both read\nsites and by waiting for a grace period before dropping the old reference\non the write side.\n\ncall_rcu(&old_pid-\u003ercu, ...) cannot be used here because free_pid()\nalso queues pid-\u003ercu; queueing the same rcu_head twice can corrupt the\nRCU callback list.\n\nOriginal KASAN crash stack:\n  kernel/pid.c:545 pid_nr_ns()        # reads freed pid-\u003elevel\n  kernel/pid.c:556 pid_vnr()          # calls pid_nr_ns()\n  kernel/pid.c:775 proc_do_cad_pid()  # calls pid_vnr(cad_pid)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c1a966bc047af2801a70b8eb13f9df5d7ab925f"},{"version":"9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae3e53fe3c1241855e3a88f74877738349948c78"},{"version":"9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad72e2566643fff7f01666d845fb026898155e1f"},{"version":"9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a17b0e053197a6a42cdc75e75a35b17aa662088"},{"version":"9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a88f78df753993469dab4d1831f8fb4256a9468"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.19"},{"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"}]

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