CVE-2026-72385

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72385
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72385.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-72385
Downstream
Published
2026-08-15T05:56:16Z
Modified
2026-08-18T03:31:02Z
Summary
tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry()

fprobe_fgraph_entry() sizes a shadow-stack reservation in one walk of the per-ip fprobe list and fills it in a second walk, both under rcu_read_lock() only. A fprobe registered on an already-live ip can become visible between the two walks, so the fill walk processes an exit_handler the sizing walk did not count and used runs past reserved_words. If the sizing walk counted nothing, fgraph_data is NULL and the first write_fprobe_header() faults:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ... KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:fprobe_fgraph_entry+0xa38/0xf10 kernel/trace/fprobe.c:167 Call Trace: function_graph_enter_regs+0x44c/0xa10 kernel/trace/fgraph.c:677 ftrace_graph_func+0xc5/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:671 __kernel_text_address+0x9/0x40 kernel/extable.c:78 arch_stack_walk+0x117/0x170 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26 kmem_cache_free+0x188/0x580 mm/slub.c:6378 tcp_data_queue+0x18d/0x6550 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5590 [...]

The list cannot be frozen across the two walks, so skip a node that does not fit the reservation and count it as missed.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/72xxx/CVE-2026-72385.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4346ba1604093305a287e08eb465a9c15ba05b80
Fixed
62988204162fc382cfc7d9a185d40a751261e3a3
Fixed
d655cca1c6e67eb081214d37eb231a869ead2f97
Fixed
367c49d6e283c17b56a31e7a8d964a079244264c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72385.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.14.0
Fixed
6.18.40
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72385.json"