CVE-2026-64370

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's posix-cpu-timers component. This vulnerability allows a local user to trigger a resource leak within the docpunanosleep function. The issue occurs because a process identifier PID reference is not properly released if a timer creation operation fails. This...

CVE-2026-64370 posix-cpu-timers: Fix pid refcount leak in do_cpu_nanosleep() error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-cpu-timers: Fix pid refcount leak in docpunanosleep error path In docpunanosleep, posixcputimercreate takes a pid reference via getpid and stores it in timer.it.cpu.pid. If the subsequent posixcputimerset call fails, the...