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CVE-2026-74512

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

audit: fix potential use-after-free in audit_del_rule()

audit_del_rule() destroys e-&gt;rule.exe via audit_remove_mark_rule() before unlinking the rule from RCU-visible filter lists and waiting for a grace period. Concurrent readers in audit_filter() and audit_filter_rules() still dereference e-&gt;rule.exe, while the fsnotify mark can be freed on an independent lifetime path. This creates a use-after-free window during rule deletion.

Fix this by unlinking the rule from the RCU-visible lists and invoking synchronize_rcu() before calling audit_remove_mark_rule() (and other rule removal helpers). This ensures that all existing RCU readers have exited the critical section before any underlying resources are destroyed.

Details

Affected product:
Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 4.4.0 (+5 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 12 Planned —
Debian 13 Released
15 kernels
  • 6.12.85-1
  • 6.12.86-1
  • 6.12.88-1
  • 6.12.74-2
  • 6.12.73-1
  • 6.12.63-1
  • 6.12.69-1
  • 6.12.74-1
  • 6.12.90-1
  • 6.12.90-2
  • 6.12.94-1
  • 6.12.95-1
  • 6.12.96-1
  • 6.12.100-1
  • 6.12.101-1
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned —