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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98642" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:20:13.740Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:23:11.995Z" 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-2026-98642" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98642.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98642" title: "bpf: Fix UAF due to concurrent consumption of ttrace lists in alloc_bulk" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix UAF due to concurrent consumption of ttrace lists in alloc_bulk\n\nSyzkaller repeatedly triggered UAF splats related to nodes in\nwaiting_for_gp_ttrace within the bpf memalloc:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in llist_del_first+0x85/0x110 lib/llist.c:61\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff8881572cd080 by task syz.4.470/5112\n ...\n llist_del_first+0x85/0x110 lib/llist.c:61\n alloc_bulk+0x193/0x460 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c:229\n bpf_mem_refill+0x386/0x560 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c:436\n\nFreed by task 14:\n ...\n __free_rcu kernel/bpf/memalloc.c:281 [inline]\n __free_rcu_tasks_trace+0x48/0xd0 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c:291\n rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs+0x1ec/0x3e0 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:571\n rcu_tasks_one_gp+0x13d/0x220 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:621\n rcu_tasks_kthread+0xf3/0x120 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:651\n\nThe reason is that the UAF occurs after the RCU Tasks Trace GP expires:\nwhen the __free_rcu() callback runs, there is no synchronization\nprotecting llist_del_all() against concurrent alloc_bulk() operating on\nwaiting_for_gp_ttrace, leading to the race condition below:\n\nCPU0 CPU1\n __free_rcu (RCU Tasks Trace callback)\nalloc_bulk\n llist_del_first(&c-\u003ewaiting_for_gp_ttrace)\n entry = smp_load_acquire(&head-\u003efirst);\n do {\n if (entry == NULL)\n return NULL;\n free_all(llist_del_all(&c-\u003ewaiting_for_gp_ttrace))\n llist_for_each_safe(pos, t, llnode)\n free_one(pos);\n next = READ_ONCE(entry-\u003enext); \u003c-- trigger UAF\n } while (!try_cmpxchg(&head-\u003efirst, &entry, next));\n\nIn addition, there is also a theoretical race condition on the\nfree_by_rcu_ttrace list. This race requires two preconditions: an\nin-flight Tasks Trace GP keeping c-\u003ecall_rcu_ttrace_in_progress == 1,\nand concurrent cross-CPU frees repopulating c-\u003efree_by_rcu_ttrace with\nnew nodes. Under these conditions, the following scenario triggers UAF:\n\n// CPU0\n// irq work is still busy (on PREEMPT_RT)\nalloc_bulk()\n llist_del_first(&c-\u003efree_by_rcu_ttrace)\n entry = smp_load_acquire(&head-\u003efirst);\n do {\n if (entry == NULL)\n return NULL;\n\n // CPU1\n bpf_mem_alloc_destroy()\n WRITE_ONCE(c-\u003edraining, true)\n // wait for CPU0\n irq_work_sync()\n\n // CPU2\n do_call_rcu_ttrace(tgt(CPU0))\n if (c-\u003edraining) {\n llist_del_all(&c-\u003efree_by_rcu_ttrace)\n free_all()\n }\n\n// CPU0 continue\n next = READ_ONCE(entry-\u003enext); \u003c-- trigger UAF\n while (!try_cmpxchg(&head-\u003efirst, &entry, next));\n\nFix this by introducing a raw spinlock to synchronize the concurrent\nconsumption on waiting_for_gp_ttrace and free_by_rcu_ttrace." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0e150a118025a05c8662c536ba2a865da86419c"},{"version":"04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d6581b544a88cf4348c2fb60dcb50ad63f012da"},{"version":"04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f101602415fb39a58941bec444df65634d5a6844"},{"version":"04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c21452d02eec2f008e2c5535820f85adbd7587a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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