Vulnerability · NVD

CVE-2026-43499

CVE-2026-43499 : high severity (CVSS 7.8). No tracked catalog app is linked to this CVE.

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

rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()

remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().

In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:

1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held

2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
dangling pointer primed for UAF around.

3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
task

Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.

[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
changelog ]