Service interruption via concurrent CXL region deletion
Published Aug 15, 2026 · Updated Aug 15, 2026
Race condition in the Linux kernel CXL region code allows local users with elevated privileges to interrupt service through concurrent deletion. The sysfs deletion path looked up and removed regions without holding regions_lock across the operation, allowing concurrent requests or root-device teardown to trigger duplicate deletion. Reachability requires privileged write access to CXL region sysfs controls and an existing CXL region; the bounded consequence is kernel availability loss, with no confidentiality impact reported.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in the Linux kernel CXL region code allows local users with elevated privileges to interrupt service through concurrent deletion. The sysfs deletion path looked up and removed regions without holding regions_lock across the operation, allowing concurrent requests or root-device teardown to trigger duplicate deletion. Reachability requires privileged write access to CXL region sysfs controls and an existing CXL region; the bounded consequence is kernel availability loss, with no confidentiality impact reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-74272
- Published
- Aug 15, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 15, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
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- Aug 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.0
- Affected versionversion=779dd20cfb56c510f89877cca45529fa9f8bc450 <4dd86ca99ffcc413cbf79063fd9956ef54e0ca91
- Affected versionversion=779dd20cfb56c510f89877cca45529fa9f8bc450 <be44c1c04f85d7b7ac1c597a30b443bbd346acbd
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