CVE-2026-43494

🛠️ PinTheft — CVE-2026-43494 Local Privilege Escalation in Linux Kernel via RDS + iouring Page Cache Overwrite 📌 Overview PinTheft is a sophisticated local root exploit for CVE-2026-43494 , a reference-counting bug in the Linux kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS subsystem. By combining a...

CVE-2026-43494-PinTheft-PoC

SLEY — PinTheft PoC CVE-2026-43494 Proof of concept — uid=1000raken → uid=0root after ./sley on WSL2 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Single-file proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-43494 PinTheft: a Linux kernel local privilege escalation that chains an RDS zerocopy reference-count bug with iouring...

CVE-2023-20938

CVE-2023-20938 Vulnerability Analysis 1. Client A and Client B establish a Binder connection via the ServiceManager context manager. 2. A creates node 0xbeef node = bindernewnodeproc, fp;. B references node 0xbeef via ref-targetnode. 3. B correctly processes targetnode 0xbeef, enqueuing the...

CVE-2026-98459

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem. This flaw allows a local user to cause a Denial of Service DoS due to improper reference counting when handling Broadcast Isochronous Stream BIS connections. During unlinking operations, the kernel may prematurely release an active paren...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: TLS: Fixed a race condition between the async notify and socket close operations. The thread that submitted the request the one that called recvmsg/sendmsg may exit as soon as the async crypto handler’s call completes. Any cod...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: fixed Use-after-Free, failed to increment the ref count of the skb while it was in use. This patch addresses a Use-after-Free issue identified by the syzbot. The problem arises when a skb is taken from the per-session...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: tegra20-slink: Fixed a UAF Use-after-Allocation issue in tegraslinkremove. After calling spiunregistermaster, the refcount of the master will be decreased to 0, and it will be freed in spicontrollerrelease. The device data...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: elx: libefc: Fixed potential use after free in efcnportvportdel The krefput function will call nport-release if the reference count drops to zero. The nport-release function is efcnportfree, which frees the “nport” object...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: - For the media module, in mtk-mdp: Error handling in the probe function has been fixed. - Added mtkmdpunregisterm2mdevice in the error handling path to prevent resource leaks. - Added a check on the return value of...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fixed the issue where a memory leak occurred after the session was logged off. There is an issue with the interaction between SMB2 session logging out and SMB2 session setup. This issue causes a memory leak after the sessi...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: All requests are flushed after setting CACHEFILESDEAD. In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the kernel marks the cache as CACHEFILESDEAD, the cachefilesdaemonwrite function will always...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: s390/zcrypt: fixed reference counting on zcrypt card objects Tests with hot-plugging crypto cards on KVM guests with a debug kernel build revealed an use-after-free of the load field of the struct zcryptcard. The issue was due...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/siw: Fixed the issue where the QP destruction operation was delayed until all references to QP were dropped. The completion of the QP destruction operation is delayed until all references to QP have been removed. The RDMA co...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: ti: tusb1210: Resolve charger-det crash if charger psy is unregistered The powersupply framework is not actually designed to have long-term references to powersupply devices in the kernel. Specifically, unregistering a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.10, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: Client side – fixed a potential deadlock that could occur when releasing mids. All callers of releasemid seem to hold a reference to @mid; therefore, there is no need to call krefput&mid-refcount, releasemid under...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in poppler, poppler-22

Poppler is a PDF rendering library. Versions before 25.06.0 use std::atomicint for reference counting. Since std::atomicint is only 32 bits in size, it is possible for the reference count to overflow, leading to a use-after-free. Version 25.06.0 addresses this issue...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: fixed a kernel panic caused by a race condition involving smcsock. A crash occurs when smccdctxhandler attempts to access smcsock, but smcrelease has already freed it. 4570.695099 BUG: Unable to handle a page fault for...

CVE-2026-97946

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Improper reference counting during AMD PCI root device initialization and caching in the amdsmninit function fails to properly track device lifecycles. Under certain conditions, this flaw may allow a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service DoS or system...

CVE-2026-93795

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's block control group blk-cgroup subsystem, which can lead to a Denial of Service DoS. When an insertion failure occurs during the creation of a block group structure, the error-handling path fails to properly shut down reference counting. A local user can...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-97946

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/amdnode: Fix PCI device reference counting in amdsmninit The local "root" pointer is a temporary variable used during the device search. Therefore, refcount related to the search iterators should be cleaned up after the searc...