CVE-2026-74329 json
watchdog: unregister PM notifier on watchdog unregister
published 2mo ago modified 5d ago also EUVD-2026-59476
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
watchdog: unregister PM notifier on watchdog unregister
watchdog_register_device() registers wdd->pm_nb when WDOG_NO_PING_ON_SUSPEND is set, but watchdog_unregister_device() does not remove it. This leaves an embedded notifier block on the PM notifier chain after the watchdog device has been unregistered.
A later suspend/resume notification can then call watchdog_pm_notifier() with a stale watchdog_device pointer, or at minimum after wdd->wd_data has been cleared by watchdog_dev_unregister().
Unregister the PM notifier before tearing down the watchdog device.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
- linux Debian 12 6.1.180-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.100-1
- linux Debian 14 7.1.5-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74329
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-198.208
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-147.147
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-38.38
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1117.124
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1067.70
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1014.14
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1118.128
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1071.79
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-74329
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.42
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd2d1b1f99308f7680d75a377daaff363f1cc736 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d9b58ec6f5de5e159a570d419b1b08b3b9f854b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/89184909634e50d086d86d8a0c03fc86fe8d889f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e690afea5c876a4abfa2978c6a664460ed7d1217 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/298821692d447c2f7b1bc9ef41cd88a31bf56436 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c70b5bb6f04f77ef90e047d7edc2f476e206909f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a298c7302ee9584a7a1ac1e8acbede8d98ab51a4 commit
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What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-74329 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: watchdog: unregister PM notifier on watchdog unregister
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 moreaffected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-selftests-internalnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 5d ago
Exploit prediction
0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/cd2d1b1f99308f7680d75a377daaff363f1cc736
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/5d9b58ec6f5de5e159a570d419b1b08b3b9f854b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/89184909634e50d086d86d8a0c03fc86fe8d889f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e690afea5c876a4abfa2978c6a664460ed7d1217
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/298821692d447c2f7b1bc9ef41cd88a31bf56436
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/c70b5bb6f04f77ef90e047d7edc2f476e206909f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a298c7302ee9584a7a1ac1e8acbede8d98ab51a4
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-74329
- NVD CVE-2026-74329
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