Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete() itimer_delete() has a retry loop when the timer is concurrently expired. On non-RT kernels this just spin-waits until the timer callback has completed, except for posix CPU timers which have HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK enabled. In that case and on RT kernels the existing task could live lock when preempting the task which does the timer delivery. Replace spin_unlock() with an invocation of timer_wait_running() to handle it the same way as the other retry loops in the posix timer code.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Scores
EPSS
0.0017
EPSS Percentile
6.7%
Details
Status
published
Products (19)
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.121linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.39linux
linux/Kernel
5.4.0 - 5.10.188linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.3.13linux
linux/Kernel
6.4.0 - 6.4.4linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.4
Linux/Linux
5.10.188 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.15.121 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.4
Linux/Linux
6.1.39 - 6.1.*
... and 9 more
Published
Dec 09, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026