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CVE-2026-43074high

eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period

41Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 7.8epss 0.5%
from disclosure to weapon73 days
Published on NVDMay 6
1st PoC+73d
exploitation probability
0.5%top 61% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period In certain situations, ep_free() in eventpoll.c will kfree the epi->ep eventpoll struct while it still being used by another concurrent thread. Defer the kfree() to an RCU callback to prevent UAF.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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