Answer in brief
CVE-2026-97936 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in tracing: Fix memory corruption from the histogram stacktrace modifier. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
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Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=cc5fc8bfc961eeb99b7e8dffbeff7a3f6995d314 <e183b84968d4a6ea476d806ea97668405aa56880 || >=cc5fc8bfc961eeb99b7e8dffbeff7a3f6995d314 <57bfc2a17954d173d2a4182f3b582ffbb23aff64 || >=cc5fc8bfc961eeb99b7e8dffbeff7a3f6995d314 <55caaf25da2c2bb9b75307e4c868726cb954b1d6 || >=cc5fc8bfc961eeb99b7e8dffbeff7a3f6995d314 <a5e70ba87ca8ebc79b4e63de302d03b0625fe153 | e183b84968d4a6ea476d806ea97668405aa56880, 57bfc2a17954d173d2a4182f3b582ffbb23aff64, 55caaf25da2c2bb9b75307e4c868726cb954b1d6, a5e70ba87ca8ebc79b4e63de302d03b0625fe153 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.3 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 25, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 25, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 25, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix memory corruption from the histogram stacktrace modifier parse_field() sets HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE from the ".stacktrace" modifier before it looks the field name up, and nothing afterwards checks that the name resolved to a field which holds a stacktrace. create_hist_field() picks HIST_FIELD_FN_STACK on the strength of the field pointer alone, which reads a __data_loc word from the record and follows its low 16 bits as an offset into the same record. event_hist_trigger() takes the first word there as an entry count and copies that many longs into a 31 entry array: n_entries = *stack; memcpy(entries, ++stack, n_entries * sizeof(unsigned long)); Neither end of that copy is bounded, and the count is whatever the event holds at the offset, so any field will do: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork # echo 'hist:keys=parent_pid.stacktrace' > trigger # (true) BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 RIP: 0010:rb_insert_color+0x18/0x130 timerqueue_linked_add+0x7e/0xd0 enqueue_hrtimer+0x39/0xb0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x10f/0x1f0 </IRQ> RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x30 event_hist_trigger+0x165/0x690 The timer interrupt landed on the rbtree the copy had already run over. No debug options are needed for this; KASAN reports the same write as an out-of-bounds read of 13835058055416381440 bytes. Documentation/trace/histogram.rst already states the rule, "must be a long[] type", so enforce it once the name has been resolved. Names which resolve to no field at all, "hitcount.stacktrace" and the common_* pseudo-fields, are refused for the same reason: they hold no stacktrace to read.
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