{"id":"CVE-2026-68334","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-68334","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:07:58.644Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() checks local->io_thread before waking it, but then reloads the pointer for wake_up_process().…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread()\n\nrxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() checks local->io_thread before waking it, but\nthen reloads the pointer for wake_up_process().\n\nlocal->io_thread is cleared with WRITE_ONCE() when the I/O thread exits, so\nthe second load can see NULL even if the first load did not.\n\nTake a READ_ONCE() snapshot and use it for both the NULL check and the\nwake_up_process() call, as rxrpc_encap_rcv() already does.","published":"2026-08-10T13:20:24.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-17T06:17:42.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":null,"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00173,"percentile":0.06747,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"unknown","text":"Not yet scored. NVD analysis is pending; check back once CVSS and EPSS values are published."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/092b42cf3f6013eec43607ecbcad674723649514","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/745fb794c3e933c023af9dbb5876a5e16ad2dc71","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9165e199f56997f2f2deb5d3ec2dfab98dfa288","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68334","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}