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CVE-2026-46173

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task When an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls do_task_dead() with preemption enabled. That is forbidden: do_task_dead() calls __schedule(), which has a comment saying "WARNING: must be called with preemption disabled!". If an oopsing task is preempted in do_task_dead(), between becoming TASK_DEAD and entering the scheduler explicitly, bad things happe
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:383d4e4e1c95f9fd38a9a0a3992e22589990fa5b551451c41dbc0fe737b2a0a1
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["kernel/exit.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"3d6fb8a7690c23e3213c4b008f64d89a44b98737","status":"affected","version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"640b4c00fb0e2920327435f6176cbefc3c546165","status":"affected","version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca611291b5","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"7b2800ba5f5f77a8ee7f4cbadb19cf1264597a34","status":"affected","version":"7f80a2fd7db9a55894fd841915236aca…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/affected/0
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["kernel/exit.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"5.17"},{"lessThan":"5.17","status":"unaffected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","version":"6.1.175","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","status":"unaffected","version":"6.6.140","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","status":"unaffected","version":"6.12.88","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/affected/1

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":7.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

Source references

7 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6fb8a7690c23e3213c4b008f64d89a44b98737"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/640b4c00fb0e2920327435f6176cbefc3c546165"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f49f94f3b11fe8bff1bf2a054143789e76aaf17"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b2800ba5f5f77a8ee7f4cbadb19cf1264597a34"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9756b3db5db6c2f5eccb32dddbd88eb4c54f575e"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1fa0bb633e4a6b11e83ffc57fa5abe8ebb87891"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/510793286"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:de51de061f62e7f5511ae899a649b5294096c5ef6dc1a726d1305e0132bc35ad · sha256:006aecdcb8b76fe5… · /containers/cna/references/6

Attribution and limitations

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