In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen-blkback: Avoid UAF when reading I/O statistics Reading I/O statistics via sysfs concurrently with tearing down a frontend device might result in UAF or a NULL dereference, as the reading of the statistics data is not synchronized with freeing the data. Use a rwlock for synchronizing. This is XSA-528 / CVE-2026-100082
History

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First Time appeared Linux linux
Vendors & Products Linux linux

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Weaknesses CWE-416
CWE-476

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen-blkback: Avoid UAF when reading I/O statistics Reading I/O statistics via sysfs concurrently with tearing down a frontend device might result in UAF or a NULL dereference, as the reading of the statistics data is not synchronized with freeing the data. Use a rwlock for synchronizing. This is XSA-528 / CVE-2026-100082
Title xen-blkback: Avoid UAF when reading I/O statistics
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2026-11-06T18:23:02.627Z

Updated: 2026-11-06T19:08:45.432Z

Reserved: 2026-09-25T10:25:14.456Z

Link: CVE-2026-100082

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-06T19:17:03.517

Modified: 2026-11-06T19:17:03.517

Link: CVE-2026-100082

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