CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-99267
Exploitation and prioritisation
- EU Vulnerability Database
- EUVD-2026-115792
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-11-03
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s
With dynamic tracking a NAPI id that hasn't been seen for a minute is
meant to be dropped from the list the ring busy polls. The timeout is
added to jiffies, but it is defined as 60 * SEC_CONVERSION, and
SEC_CONVERSION isn't the number of jiffies in a second. It is the
internal factor of __timespec64_to_jiffies(), HZ scaled up by
SEC_JIFFIE_SC bits. For HZ=1000 that is 1000 << 22, which puts the
timeout at about eight years. On 32-bit the multiplication overflows.
So entries are never removed, and every id that a socket of the ring
ever had keeps being polled on each wait.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18c373f446068972788158c8c7de6e849b04ed98 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fe820cf35f83534eab72ea73f1a83cfd3cd8079 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/981621d6eadcd232d4ea748aaeb046337f10d3c1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c151648780d89e5446e5f89f3fa2e416c3bb911 git.kernel.org