cve/2024/CVE-2024-26686.md

CVE-2024-26686

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children statslock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup. If NR_CPUS threads calldo_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it willspin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statisticsoutside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code willrun lockless.

POC

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Github

• https://github.com/w4zu/Debian_security