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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98790"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:27.412Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:00.544Z"
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-2026-98790"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98790.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98790"
title: "perf: Fix race between perf_event_exit_task() and perf_pending_task()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf: Fix race between perf_event_exit_task() and perf_pending_task()\n\nA race condition exists between perf_event_exit_task() and\nperf_pending_task() during begin_new_exec().\n\nDuring begin_new_exec(), perf_event_exit_task() may be called, and the\nPF_EXITING flag is not set on task. So perf_sigtrap() continues to execute\nand triggers WARN_ON_ONCE(event-\u003ectx-\u003etask != current).\n\nSince both task exit and exec paths can call perf_event_exit_task() which\nsets ctx-\u003etask to TASK_TOMBSTONE, fix this by explicitly checking if\nevent-\u003ectx-\u003etask equals TASK_TOMBSTONE and dropping the redundant\nPF_EXITING check."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"655acfa713bce9ae9c81a654459890c2f58cb4e8"},{"version":"97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"672b8a9ce8f51b991481dfde26fba5cc4340a91a"},{"version":"97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"524063fea29f8a841e49927ea7a8085194ad3ec2"},{"version":"97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81e61e3f8befa1bae3ec8e779d8ada5e5e362c21"},{"version":"97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffb684f2aa141eeb0caa6308422e7e05d1ded7c4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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