CVE-2026-23138

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.8-6.18.5 - Denial of Service via Recursive Stack Trace Trigger

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 6.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.8.0 - 6.18.6linux
Linux/Linux < 5.8
Linux/Linux 5.8
Linux/Linux 5f5fa7ea89dc82d34ed458f4d7a8634e8e9eefce - 19e18e6dabb1bbba76d2809ca7d8ae9e1f5975fe
Linux/Linux 5f5fa7ea89dc82d34ed458f4d7a8634e8e9eefce - 5b7f91acffd2c4c000971553d22efa1e1bb4feae
Linux/Linux 5f5fa7ea89dc82d34ed458f4d7a8634e8e9eefce - 5f1ef0dfcb5b7f4a91a9b0e0ba533efd9f7e2cdb
Linux/Linux 5f5fa7ea89dc82d34ed458f4d7a8634e8e9eefce - 9b03768037d91ce727effb1c5d92d2c7781bf692
Linux/Linux 6.12.78 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.6 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19
... and 3 more
Published Feb 14, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026