AEGLIX investigation
CVE-2026-78118 research
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Evidence summary
The kernel helper z_waitq_head() (kernel/include/wait_q.h) reads the head of a thread wait queue, but on SMP systems it was called from several places without holding the scheduler spinlock _sched_spinlock that serializes wait-queue mutation. The consequential call site is z_timer_expiration_handler() in kernel/timer.c, which held only the timer subsystem lock timer_lock while reading timer->wait_q and then unpending, setting the return value of, and readying the thread it obtained. halt_thread() in kernel/sched.c removes an aborted thread from its wait queue while holding only _sched_spinlock, so the two paths are not mutually exclusive. When the last waiter is removed on another CPU in...
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- No higher-priority signal is available in the current stored evidence.
CVSS: 7.0 · EPSS: 0.10% (2026-10-28)
Source retrieved 2026-10-28T10:20:22.140636+00:00. Read the full record and affected versions before making a patch decision.
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