CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64370

Low risk· EPSS 8%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

In POSIX CPU timers, a PID reference leak was found in do_cpu_nanosleep(). On error after timer creation, the function does not release the PID reference, causing a leak.

Risk Assessment

The PID reference leak could exhaust the PID pool, preventing new process creation and causing denial of service.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that adds a call to posix_cpu_timer_del() in the error path before releasing the lock.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-cpu-timers: Fix pid refcount leak in do_cpu_nanosleep() error path In do_cpu_nanosleep(), posix_cpu_timer_create() takes a pid reference via get_pid() and stores it in timer.it.cpu.pid. If the subsequent posix_cpu_timer_set() call fails, the function returns immediately without calling posix_cpu_timer_del() to release the pid reference, causing a leak. Fix it by calling posix_cpu_timer_del() before the unlock-and-return on the error path, consistent with the other exit paths in the same function.

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