Race condition in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-92501

Vulnerability identifier: #VU151018

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2026-92501

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 ext4_buffered_write_iter() when a direct I/O write falls back to buffered I/O while concurrent direct I/O completes. A local user can issue concurrent direct I/O operations to cause a denial of service.

The issue can also occur when non-overlapping direct I/O writes share a large folio and the block size is smaller than the folio size.

Linux kernel
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
linux-nvidia-tegra-igx (Ubuntu package)
linux-nvidia-tegra (Ubuntu package)
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 (Ubuntu package)
linux-azure-fde (Ubuntu package)
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package)
linux-aws (Ubuntu package)
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package)
linux-hwe-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux (Debian package)

Install security update from vendor's repository.

linux-nvidia-tegra-igx (Ubuntu package) - update to 5.15.0-1059.59
linux-nvidia-tegra (Ubuntu package) - update to 5.15.0-1070.72
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 (Ubuntu package) - update to 5.15.0-1070.72~20.04.1
linux-azure-fde (Ubuntu package) - update to 5.15.0-1124.133
linux (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-42.42
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1015.16
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.18
linux-aws (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.17
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
linux (Debian package) - update to 6.12.111-1

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15cdefd0c0522f9d5e12d947fa04f4c11649b699
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e4e3eec506247c8f8bd8aaa1eb25e67016681a5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7341e234927ff215f1d5d0bcfe04b74f53af378d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74eee4ff9698a65b2e6e15dac0e50d6526ad5f20
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fd3ffc3c51c9deaba99bd7b338fff2d08f52416
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d47cdadd6e49023f7ee248048463807f1214f1ee
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0af3ae09fb72382da1a5371bf6761b0264668e4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd7e0dab20837b9ea1eeef7c26f78ace8ac8258c

• Race condition in Linux kernel ext4
• Debian update for linux
• Ubuntu update for linux-azure-fde
• Ubuntu update for linux-oem-7.0
• Ubuntu update for linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp and more
• Ubuntu update for linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx
• Ubuntu update for linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15 and more