DEBIAN-CVE-2026-99144: Use After Free

Published Oct 28, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: schedext: Fix use-after-free of a destroyed user DSQ by a deferred reenqueue A deferred reenqueue can read a freed user DSQ. The request stays on its CPU's deferred list until rundeferred() takes it, and the RCU callback that frees the DSQ assumes that the grace period has flushed it, so exitdsq() checks the per-CPU node without the deferred list lock. A grace period waits for readers in flight, not for a pending rundeferred(). A rundeferred() which starts after the grace period began can detach the request right before the callback looks and then read the freed DSQ's id. Cancel the pending requests before the grace period instead. The irq work that frees the DSQ unlinks every CPU's request under the per-CPU deferred list lock, and scheduledsqreenq() ignores a new request under the same lock once the id is invalid. Only a rundeferred() that started before the grace period can hold a request, and it runs with IRQs disabled, so the grace period waits for it and nothing touches the DSQ after the callback.

Affected Software

1 affected component
debian/linux*

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Compensating control

    Cancel pending deferred reenqueue requests before starting the grace period.

Event History

Oct 28, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·11:17 AM
Data Sourced
via OSV·11:17 AM
DescriptionAffected Software

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