kernel: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's procfs component. When reading /proc/pid/stat, the dotaskstat function accesses task-realparent without proper Read-Copy-Update RCU protection. This missing protection creates a race condition, which can lead to a Use-After-Free UAF vulnerability. A local...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's procfs component. When reading /proc/pid/stat, the dotaskstat function accesses task-realparent without proper Read-Copy-Update RCU protection. This missing protection creates a race condition, which can lead to a Use-After-Free UAF vulnerability. A local...

kernel: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's procfs component. When reading /proc/pid/stat, the dotaskstat function accesses task-realparent without proper Read-Copy-Update RCU protection. This missing protection creates a race condition, which can lead to a Use-After-Free UAF vulnerability. A local...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: procfs: Avoid fetching the build ID while holding the VMA lock. Fix the PROCMAPQUERY to fetch the optional build ID only after releasing the mmaplock or the per-VMA lock, whichever was used to lock the VMA, to prevent deadlock...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: Fixed a missing RCU protection when reading realparent in dotaskstat. When reading /proc/pid/stat, dotaskstat accesses task-realparent without proper RCU protection. This leads to the following sequence of events: cpu 0 c...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: Fixed a possible double mmput operation in doprocmapquery. When a user provides a buffer of incorrect size for the PROCMAPQUERY build ID, we return an -ENAMETOOLONG error. After recent changes, this condition occurs later...

SUSE CVE-2026-46259

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading realparent in dotaskstat When reading /proc/pid/stat, dotaskstat accesses task-realparent without proper RCU protection, which leads to: cpu 0 cpu 1 ----- ----- dotaskstat var =...

CVE-2026-46259

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's procfs component. When reading /proc/pid/stat, the dotaskstat function accesses task-realparent without proper Read-Copy-Update RCU protection. This missing protection creates a race condition, which can lead to a Use-After-Free UAF vulnerability. A local...

CVE-2026-46259

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading realparent in dotaskstat When reading /proc/pid/stat, dotaskstat accesses task-realparent without proper RCU protection, which leads to: cpu 0 cpu 1 ----- ----- dotaskstat var =...

CVE-2026-46259

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading realparent in dotaskstat When reading /proc/pid/stat, dotaskstat accesses task-realparent without proper RCU protection, which leads to: cpu 0 cpu 1 ----- ----- dotaskstat var =...

CVE-2026-46259

In the Linux kernel procfs path do_task_stat() reading /proc/[pid]/stat, task->real_parent is accessed without proper RCU protection, enabling a potential Use-After-Free when another task is released. The fix switches from task_tgid_nr_ns() to task_ppid_nr_ns() to add proper RCU protection for...

CVE-2026-46259 procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading realparent in dotaskstat When reading /proc/pid/stat, dotaskstat accesses task-realparent without proper RCU protection, which leads to: cpu 0 cpu 1 ----- ----- dotaskstat var =...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-46259

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading realparent in dotaskstat When reading /proc/pid/stat, dotaskstat accesses task-realparent without proper RCU...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: The issue involves bcm: – a UAF Use-After-Free flaw in bcmprocshow. Bug: KASAN: A slabuse-after-free issue occurs in bcmprocshow+0x969/0xa80. A size 8 data block was read from address ffff888155846230 by the task cat/7862. CPU: 1...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/proc: fixed a UAF in procreaddirde. The pde is erased from the subdir rbtree through rberase, but the node is not set to EMPTY, which may lead to UAF access. We should use RBCLEARNODE to set the erased node to EMPTY. Then,...

SUSE CVE-2026-43178

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: fix possible double mmput in doprocmapquery When user provides incorrectly sized buffer for build ID for PROCMAPQUERY we return with -ENAMETOOLONG error. After recent changes this condition happens later, after we unlocke...

CVE-2026-43178

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's procfs component. A local user, by providing a malformed input buffer during a specific memory mapping query PROCMAPQUERY, can trigger an error in how the kernel manages process memory. This can lead to a double release of memory resources, potentially causi...

EUVD-2026-27738

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: fix possible double mmput in doprocmapquery When user provides incorrectly sized buffer for build ID for PROCMAPQUERY we return with -ENAMETOOLONG error. After recent changes this condition happens later, after we unlocke...

CVE-2026-43178

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: procfs: fix possible double mmput in doprocmapquery When user provides incorrectly sized buffer for build ID for PROCMAPQUERY we return with -ENAMETOOLONG error. After recent changes this condition happens later, after we unlocke...