Skip to main content
← All vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-98751

tty: abort break signalling on hangup

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: abort break signalling on hangup The break ioctls can race with hangup and end up calling into a tty driver for a device that is already gone or powered down. Drivers must handle this race, but TCSBRK and TCSBRKP should still be aborted to avoid calling back into the driver after a user-controlled timeout (possibly even after the tty has been reopened). Note that drivers should disable any break state on shutdown so just return on hangup (calling break_ctl() again is racy and will most likely fail for drivers handling the race).

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062 · fixed in 6c9c9367351a461d62e5c0a39bffdcfbb40f068b; From f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062 · fixed in 3bc82999fb85cecc7eb6ec1755ee7d698aa1e783; From f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062 · fixed in 94af6cd832e9b4ce39a8fb59144a8f09ab56fd35; From f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062 · fixed in c8ccd3b2013daaf77b98f8a6724fcf4d2c5c52d6; From f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062 · fixed in 845a2737e0f5ffe5ca8d38de556012b0c9472cdd

  • Linux Linux

    2.6.26

  • KernelLinux

    From 2.6.26 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.113; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.56; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.10

References 5

git.kernel.org