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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-99058"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:45.920Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:45.920Z"
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-2026-99058"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99058.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99058"
title: "workqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in chained work check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nworkqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in chained work check\n\ncurrent_wq_worker() only tells us that %current is a kworker. It does\nnot guarantee that the worker is currently executing a work item, as\nworker-\u003ecurrent_pwq is populated only while process_one_work() is running\nthe work function.\n\nis_chained_work() can be reached while queueing on a draining or\ndestroying workqueue. If a kworker outside work-item execution reaches\nthat path, current_wq_worker() returns a worker but worker-\u003ecurrent_pwq is\nNULL, and the chained-work test can fault before it emits the intended\nwarning.\n\nGuard the chained-work test with worker-\u003ecurrent_pwq. A kworker without\ncurrent_pwq is not executing work on the target workqueue, so the helper\nshould return false and let the draining/destroying warning fire."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8d03ecfe471802d6afe97da97722b6924533aa82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3dc61af2998cfc7312d6e59bbdcd5eed074483f2"},{"version":"8d03ecfe471802d6afe97da97722b6924533aa82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"729d576df89c7e4341e58c452f8890620a610ac2"},{"version":"8d03ecfe471802d6afe97da97722b6924533aa82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b12a25fb2b9d5dac80e419d695450cc17a51fdfd"},{"version":"8d03ecfe471802d6afe97da97722b6924533aa82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a2668682e998039a027796b236319b380078a6a"},{"version":"8d03ecfe471802d6afe97da97722b6924533aa82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"980db94e3eeefdd8a1c46f86412c33a7f7806f51"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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