{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98072 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98072 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 Sep 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98072 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98072 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 Sep 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98072 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98072/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98072/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98072","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98072/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98072","record":{"aliases":["AZL-104214","BELL-CVE-2026-98072","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98072","GHSA-6xgx-8jc3-whpq","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98072"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel RDS module can cause a lost wake-up, leading to a denial of service by hanging connection shutdown workers.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in release_in_xmit()\n\nrelease_in_xmit() clears RDS_IN_XMIT with clear_bit_unlock() and then\nchecks waitqueue_active() to decide whether anyone needs waking.\nclear_bit_unlock() is only a release operation: it orders the\ncritical section before the bit clear, but does not order the\nsubsequent plain load of the wait queue head after it.  The waiter\nside does the mirror image - it adds itself to the wait queue and\nthen tests the bit.  That is the classic store-buffering pattern: the\nreleasing CPU can read the wait queue as empty while the waiting CPU\nstill reads the bit as set, so the sleeper is never woken.\n\nThe waiters are rds_conn_shutdown() and rds_tcp_reset_callbacks(),\nboth in uninterruptible wait_event() with no timeout.  A lost wake-up\nstrands the shutdown worker on its single-threaded workqueue until\nsome other sender releases the bit again - and on a connection that\nis being torn down precisely because it failed, there may never be\nanother sender.\n\nThe barrier used to be there: release_in_xmit() did clear_bit()\nfollowed by smp_mb__after_atomic() until commit 1422f28826d2 (\"rds:\nintroduce acquire/release ordering in acquire/release_in_xmit()\")\nfolded both into clear_bit_unlock(), which strengthened the lock\nhand-off but silently dropped the full barrier the wake-up check\ndepends on.  The refill counterpart, release_refill() in\nnet/rds/ib_recv.c, still carries its smp_mb__after_atomic() for\nexactly this reason.\n\nUse wq_has_sleeper(), which is waitqueue_active() preceded by the\nrequired full barrier.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in release_in_xmit()","id":"CVE-2026-98072","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"race_condition","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"net: Remove conflicting altnames for dying netns in __dev_change_net_namespace().","id":"CVE-2026-98073"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net/rds: clear cp_flags bits individually in rds_conn_path_reset()","id":"CVE-2026-98071"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-09-25","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel RDS module can cause a lost wake-up, leading to a denial of service by hanging connection shutdown workers.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98072/"}