Race condition in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-74605

Vulnerability identifier: #VU144967

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2026-74605

CWE-ID: CWE-362

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in eventfs inode handling in fs/tracefs/event_inode.c when iterating over the SRCU-protected children list during inode freeing. A local user can trigger concurrent eventfs operations to cause a denial of service.

The issue occurs because a freed inode can be observed with its children list reused as an RCU head, causing iteration to read an invalid list target.

Linux kernel
Debian Linux
openEuler
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-aws (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package)
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package)
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package)
linux-hwe-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
bpftool
python3-perf-debuginfo
python3-perf
perf-debuginfo
perf
kernel-tools-devel
kernel-tools-debuginfo
kernel-tools
kernel-headers
kernel-extra-modules
kernel-devel
kernel-debugsource
kernel-debuginfo
bpftool-debuginfo
kernel
kernel-source
linux-nvidia-tegra (Ubuntu package)
linux (Debian package)

Install security update from vendor's repository.

Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3
linux (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-42.42
linux-aws (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.17
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.18
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1015.16
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1017.17
linux-hwe-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1017.17
bpftool - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
python3-perf-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
python3-perf - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
perf-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
perf - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-tools-devel - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-tools-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-tools - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-headers - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-extra-modules - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-devel - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-debugsource - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
bpftool-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
kernel-source - update to 6.6.0-145.3.31.162
linux-nvidia-tegra (Ubuntu package) - update to 6.8.0-1036.39+1
linux (Debian package) - update to 6.12.115-2

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/004f7232e49730448f91665e76bdd7dff8e0c638
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0ece16ffca7384787b692431961ce202907acf5

• Race condition in Linux kernel tracefs
• openEuler 24.03 LTS SP3 update for kernel
• Ubuntu update for linux-nvidia-tegra
• Debian update for linux
• Ubuntu update for linux-oem-7.0
• Ubuntu update for linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp and more