Bug 2565279 (CVE-2026-99237) - CVE-2026-99237 kernel: kernel: privilege escalation via race condition in tracing subsystem
Summary: CVE-2026-99237 kernel: kernel: privilege escalation via race condition in tra...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99237
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-02 16:47 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-02 22:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-02 16:47:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers

update_last_data_if_empty() is called from tracing_open() with O_TRUNC,
tracing_read_pipe() and tracing_buffers_read() without trace_types_lock.
Two readers can both pass the LAST_BOOT test and free module_delta
twice, and a module notifier can update module_delta while it is being
freed.

Take trace_types_lock in those paths and keep the callers that already
hold it on an unlocked variant.


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