CVE-2026-23138

NameCVE-2026-23138
DescriptionIn 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1vulnerable
bullseye (security)5.10.249-1vulnerable
bookworm6.1.159-1vulnerable
bookworm (security)6.1.162-1vulnerable
trixie6.12.63-1vulnerable
trixie (security)6.12.73-1vulnerable
forky6.18.15-1fixed
sid6.19.6-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsource(unstable)6.18.8-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/5f1ef0dfcb5b7f4a91a9b0e0ba533efd9f7e2cdb (6.19-rc5)

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