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GHSA-MGX5-JRHQ-G7RG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-03 15:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats

lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup. If NR_CPUS threads call do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.

Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statistics outside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will run lockless.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2024-26686 (GCVE-0-2024-26686)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-03 14:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:02

Title

fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup. If NR_CPUS threads call do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time. Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statistics outside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will run lockless.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-03 18:03 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c35d1914353799c5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf4b8c39b9a0bd81c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3820b0fac7732a653…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27978243f165b44e3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7601df8031fd67310…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.237 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.181 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.82 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.64 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.7.6 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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