HIGH 7.8 NVD
CVE-2026-99233
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount In event
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount
In event_hist_trigger_parse() and hist_unreg_all(), the histogram
registration and unregistration paths look up find_synth_event() using
trace_event_name(file->event_call) and adjust se->ref if a match is
found.
Because find_synth_event() only compares the event basename, registering
or removing a histogram on a non-synthetic trace event whose basename
matches a synthetic event erroneously modifies the synthetic event's
reference count. If a histogram is registered on the non-synthetic
event before the synthetic event is created and removed afterwards,
se->ref is decremented without a matching increment, allowing the
synthetic event to be freed while an active histogram action still holds
a pointer to it.
Introduce find_synth_event_call() to verify that &se->call matches
file->event_call before adjusting se->ref.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06e816bed499fe47f39f12044382cc5d064485fb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23b4106e8b35823acc79e206c7745f55b9cfd78b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/381f543ed35c434d5b707369aa5dcd69ecf440af
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4472579bd1c83708b6fe623c870cdf728e947205
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5597bb8db6855fcb97a67196d227fea359bcd81c
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2026-11-02 via NVD.
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