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CVE-2026-43438

sched_ext: Remove redundant css_put() in scx_cgroup_init()

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

sched_ext: Remove redundant css_put() in scx_cgroup_init()

The iterator css_for_each_descendant_pre() walks the cgroup hierarchy
under cgroup_lock(). It does not increment the reference counts on
yielded css structs.

According to the cgroup documentation, css_put() should only be used
to release a reference obtained via css_get() or css_tryget_online().
Since the iterator does not use either of these to acquire a reference,
calling css_put() in the error path of scx_cgroup_init() causes a
refcount underflow.

Remove the unbalanced css_put() to prevent a potential Use-After-Free
(UAF) vulnerability.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.12 < 6.12.78
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.19
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 6.19.9
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version7.0 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version7.0 Updaterc2
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.13% 0.026
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc095cd305fddbe25a968e4a78436ff9476cf0f6
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6eaaa67d6998f6c30c462b140db8c062e07ec473
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf50f3285eda8a0173625fcdb5f183f96e1008cd
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1336b579f6079fb8520be03624fcd9ba443c930b
Patch