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CVE-2026-23138

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CVSS
5.5 Medium
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.12%
Risk score
1.2
Published
2026-02-14
Status
Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Add recursion protection in kernel stack trace recording A bug was reported about an infinite recursion caused by tracing the rcu events with the kernel stack trace trigger enabled. The stack trace code called back into RCU which then called the stack trace again. Expand the ftrace recursion protection to add a set of bits to protect events from recursion. Each bit represents the context that the event is in (normal, softirq, interrupt and NMI). Have the stack trace code use the interrupt context to protect against recursion. Note, the bug showed an issue in both the RCU code as well as the tracing stacktrace code. This only handles the tracing stack trace side of the bug. The RCU fix will be handled separately. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's tracing subsystem. When tracing RCU events with the kernel stack trace trigger enabled, an infinite recursion can occur because the stack trace recording code calls back into RCU, which then triggers another stack trace. This leads to a stack overflow and kernel crash.

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Coverage 4

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