In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring: Fix a null-ptr-deref in io_tctx_exit_cb()
Syzkaller reports a NULL deref bug as follows:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3
Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000138 by task file1/1955
CPU: 1 PID: 1955 Comm: file1 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc7-00103-gef4d3ea40565 #75
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134
? io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3
kasan_report+0xbb/0x1f0
? io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3
kasan_check_range+0x140/0x190
io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3
task_work_run+0x164/0x250
? task_work_cancel+0x30/0x30
get_signal+0x1c3/0x2440
? lock_downgrade+0x6e0/0x6e0
? lock_downgrade+0x6e0/0x6e0
? exit_signals+0x8b0/0x8b0
? do_raw_read_unlock+0x3b/0x70
? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x50/0x230
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x82/0x2470
? kmem_cache_free+0x260/0x4b0
? putname+0xfe/0x140
? get_sigframe_size+0x10/0x10
? do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x226/0x710
? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x100
? putname+0xfe/0x140
? do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x238/0x710
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x50
do_syscall_64+0x42/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0023:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 002b:00000000fffb7790 EFLAGS: 00000200 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000000b
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
This happens because the adding of task_work from io_ring_exit_work()
isn't synchronized with canceling all work items from eg exec. The
execution of the two are ordered in that they are both run by the task
itself, but if io_tctx_exit_cb() is queued while we're canceling all
work items off exec AND gets executed when the task exits to userspace
rather than in the main loop in io_uring_cancel_generic(), then we can
find current->io_uring == NULL and hit the above crash.
It's safe to add this NULL check here, because the execution of the two
paths are done by the task itself.
[axboe: add code comment and also put an explanation in the commit msg]
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it