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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98260" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:24.711Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:31.364Z" 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-2026-98260" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98260.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98260" title: "exec: Cleanup POSIX timers right after de_thread()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexec: Cleanup POSIX timers right after de_thread()\n\nA per-thread CPU timer holds a reference to the PID of the thread it is\nattached to and, while it is armed, its node is queued in that thread's\nposix_cputimers. The task is looked up by that PID.\n\nWhen a non-leader thread exec()s, de_thread() changes which task owns\nthat PID. pid_task(timer-\u003eit.cpu.pid, PIDTYPE_PID) then returns NULL,\nbut the node is still queued on tsk, which is alive. timer_lock_sighand()\ntakes a failed lookup to mean that the node is already dequeued, so it\nhas nothing to undo.\n\nbegin_new_exec() calls posix_cpu_timers_exit(me) right after\nexec_task_namespaces() and that removes the leftover node, so the state\nnormally stays invisible. But bprm-\u003epoint_of_no_return is set before\nde_thread(), so if unshare_files(), set_mm_exe_file(), exec_mmap() or\nexec_task_namespaces() fails, the task dies before it gets there.\nexit_itimers() then frees the k_itimer while its node is still queued,\nand reaping tsk later erases that freed node from the rbtree.\n\nIn short:\n\n the non-leader thread B the parent\n\n timer_create(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)\n timer_settime()\n arm_timer() // the node is queued on B\n execve()\n de_thread(B)\n exchange_tids(B, leader) // B's PID now belongs to the leader\n release_task(leader)\n __exit_signal(leader)\n posix_cpu_timers_exit(leader) // cleans leader's queue, not B's\n __unhash_process(leader) // that PID has no task anymore\n exec_mmap()\n mmap_read_lock_killable(old_mm)\n kill(B, SIGKILL)\n // -EINTR\n get_signal()\n do_exit()\n exit_itimers()\n posix_timer_delete()\n posix_cpu_timer_del()\n posix_timer_unhash_and_free() // freed while still queued\n wait4()\n release_task(B)\n posix_cpu_timers_exit(B)\n cleanup_timerqueue()\n timerqueue_del() // use-after-free\n\nMove the POSIX timer cleanup right after de_thread() before any of the\nlater failure conditions brings the task into do_exit().\n\n[ tglx: Move the cleanup right after de_thread() ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"55e8c8eb2c7b6bf30e99423ccfe7ca032f498f59","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f1977cea3e85cd8ab55fb337d3e1725fe61d1ce"},{"version":"55e8c8eb2c7b6bf30e99423ccfe7ca032f498f59","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9ae467e617ca29b825493a362bf0d75ad5f4ac3"},{"version":"55e8c8eb2c7b6bf30e99423ccfe7ca032f498f59","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75aa08b93c65766040f9ca99f41ac85ad22596b6"},{"version":"55e8c8eb2c7b6bf30e99423ccfe7ca032f498f59","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d602877baf36c43c788a5f472c977e0be414029f"},{"version":"55e8c8eb2c7b6bf30e99423ccfe7ca032f498f59","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acb03d3881818581052924a9bbbe92b8741ed448"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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