{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-04-03T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats",
    "id" : "2273109",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273109"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-413",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nfs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats\nlock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup.  If NR_CPUS threads call\ndo_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will\nspin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.\nChange do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statistics\noutside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will\nrun lockless.", "A vulnerability was found in the do_task_stat() function in the Linux kernel, where due to excessive lock contention, a potential hard lockup could be created. This can create a performance bottleneck and lead to kernel unresponsiveness." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-08-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:5102",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.16.1.rt7.357.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-08-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:5101",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-09-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:6998",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.124.1.el8_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service",
    "release_date" : "2024-09-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:6998",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.124.1.el8_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions",
    "release_date" : "2024-09-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:6998",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.124.1.el8_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-08-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:5255",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-477.67.1.el8_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9315",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9315",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-10-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8613",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.90.1.el9_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-10-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:8614",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.90.1.rt14.375.el9_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-12-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:10771",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.47.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26686\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26686\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024040335-CVE-2024-26686-b22f@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-26686",
  "csaw" : false
}