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CVE-2026-43499

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

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 0.1%
Vexday Risk Score
46Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Popular PoC on GitHub (136 stars) — exploitation code widely available.
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
21 May 2026Published on NVD
27 Jun 2026Public PoC
Weaponization speed
37 daysto first PoC
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
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 ]
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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