In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/user_events: Fix use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup() user_event_mm_dup() walks the parent mm's enabler list locklessly under rcu_read_lock() during fork() (from copy_process()); it does not take event_mutex: rcu_read_lock(); list_for_each_entry_rcu(enabler, &old_mm->enablers, mm_enablers_link) enabler->event = user_event_get(orig->event); user_event_enabler_destroy() removes an enabler from that list with list_del_rcu() and then, without waiting for a grace period, drops the enabler's user_event reference with user_event_put() and frees the enabler with kfree(). A reader that loaded the enabler before the list_del_rcu() can still be walking it, which leads to two use-after-frees: - kfree(enabler) frees the enabler while that reader dereferences enabler->event. - user_event_put() may drop the last reference to the user_event, which is then freed (via delayed_destroy_user_event() on a work queue), while the same reader does user_event_get(orig->event) on it. Both are reachable by an unprivileged task that can open user_events_data: one multithreaded process that registers an enabler and then concurrently unregisters it and calls fork() triggers the race. KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup() during clone(), with a "refcount_t: addition on 0" warning when the user_event is freed. The enabler use-after-free was found first; the user_event one was reported by XIAO WU, and the earlier enabler-only fix did not address it. Defer both the user_event_put() and the kfree(enabler) to a work item queued with queue_rcu_work(), so they run only after an RCU grace period, once all readers walking the enabler list have finished. The put must run in process context because user_event_put() takes event_mutex on the last reference, so a work queue is used rather than call_rcu(). The now-unlocked put lets the locked argument of user_event_enabler_destroy() be removed; all callers are updated.

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8781-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that some Arm processors could complete a broadcast translation lookaside buffer (TLB)     invalidation before memory writes made through the invalidated translation were globally observed. A local     attacker could possibly use this to write to memory after permission to do so had been revoked, bypassing     memory protections or escalating privileges. (CVE-2025-10263)

    Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to     compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

    - ARM64 architecture;

    - User-space API (UAPI);

    - Kernel build system;

    - ARM32 architecture;

    - PowerPC architecture;

    - RISC-V architecture;

    - S390 architecture;

    - User-Mode Linux (UML);

    - x86 architecture;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - Intel NPU Driver;

    - Compute Acceleration Framework;

    - ACPI drivers;

    - Drivers core;

    - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers;

    - Rados block device (RBD) driver;

    - Ublk userspace block driver;

    - Compressed RAM block device driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Hardware crypto device drivers;

    - CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers;

    - Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA);

    - EFI core;

    - FPGA Framework;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HID subsystem;

    - Hardware monitoring drivers;

    - I2C subsystem;

    - I3C subsystem;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Input Device core drivers;

    - Input Device (Mouse) drivers;

    - IOMMU subsystem;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Media drivers;

    - Fastrpc Driver;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver;

    - MediaTek network drivers;

    - NVME drivers;

    - Operating Performance Points (OPP) driver;

    - PCI subsystem;

    - PTP clock framework;

    - RPMSG subsystem;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - SoundWire subsystem;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - Greybus lights staging drivers;

    - Media staging drivers;

    - NVIDIA Tegra embedded controller (NVEC) staging driver;

    - Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - Trusted Execution Environment drivers;

    - Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers;

    - TTY drivers;

    - USB Gadget drivers;

    - USB Dual Role (OTG-ready) Controller drivers;

    - USB Serial drivers;

    - vDPA drivers;

    - VFIO drivers;

    - Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem;

    - Virtio drivers;

    - Xen hypervisor drivers;

    - 9P distributed file system;

    - AFS file system;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - Ceph distributed file system;

    - exFAT file system;

    - F2FS file system;

    - GFS2 file system;

    - HFS file system;

    - HFS+ file system;

    - JFS file system;

    - Network file systems library;

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - OCFS2 file system;

    - OrangeFS file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - File system encryption (fscrypt);

    - Software nodes and device properties;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - KVM subsystem;

    - Mellanox drivers;

    - Memory management;

    - Networking core;

    - Netfilter;

    - Socket messages infrastructure;

    - MediaTek SoC drivers;

    - Sun RPC protocol;

    - Network traffic control;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Amateur Radio drivers;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - IP tunnels definitions;

    - KCM (Kernel Connection Multiplexor) sockets driver;

    - MultiProtocol Label Switching driver;

    - TCP network protocol;

    - XFRM subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - Control group (cgroup);

    - Perf events;

    - IRQ subsystem;

    - Locking primitives;

    - KProbes tracing;

    - 9P file system network protocol;

    - B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;

    - Ethernet bridge;

    - CAN network layer;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Handshake API;

    - HSR network protocol;

    - IFE protocol;

    - L2TP protocol;

    - MAC80211 subsystem;

    - IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - Open vSwitch;

    - Phonet protocol;

    - RDS protocol;

    - RxRPC session sockets;

    - SCTP protocol;

    - SMC sockets;

    - TIPC protocol;

    - TLS protocol;

    - Unix domain sockets;

    - VMware vSockets driver;

    - Wireless networking;

    - X.25 network layer;

    - eXpress Data Path;

    - Rust bindings mechanism;

    - AppArmor security module;

    - Key management;

    - Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework;

    - SELinux security module;

    - ALSA framework;

    - AudioScience HPI driver;

    - Intel ASoC drivers;

    - USB sound devices; (CVE-2024-14040, CVE-2024-35948, CVE-2024-41008, CVE-2024-43872, CVE-2024-44932,     CVE-2024-44964, CVE-2024-49932, CVE-2024-49940, CVE-2024-50106, CVE-2024-50217, CVE-2024-52560,     CVE-2024-53098, CVE-2024-56552, CVE-2024-56591, CVE-2024-57857, CVE-2024-58089, CVE-2024-58094,     CVE-2024-58098, CVE-2024-58100, CVE-2024-58241, CVE-2025-21687, CVE-2025-21693, CVE-2025-21984,     CVE-2025-21985, CVE-2025-22104, CVE-2025-22108, CVE-2025-22109, CVE-2025-23132, CVE-2025-37776,     CVE-2025-37876, CVE-2025-37906, CVE-2025-38064, CVE-2025-38069, CVE-2025-38187, CVE-2025-38204,     CVE-2025-38206, CVE-2025-38242, CVE-2025-38498, CVE-2025-38563, CVE-2025-38565, CVE-2025-38636,     CVE-2025-38717, CVE-2025-39677, CVE-2025-39789, CVE-2025-39859, CVE-2025-39862, CVE-2025-39896,     CVE-2025-39933, CVE-2025-39958, CVE-2025-39990, CVE-2025-40025, CVE-2025-40040, CVE-2025-40054,     CVE-2025-40064, CVE-2025-40074, CVE-2025-40075, CVE-2025-40139, CVE-2025-40158, CVE-2025-40168,     CVE-2025-40170, CVE-2025-40203, CVE-2025-40274, CVE-2025-40344, CVE-2025-40354, CVE-2025-68174,     CVE-2025-68304, CVE-2025-68360, CVE-2025-68745, CVE-2025-68822, CVE-2025-71073, CVE-2025-71074,     CVE-2025-71202, CVE-2025-71289, CVE-2026-23208, CVE-2026-23239, CVE-2026-23240, CVE-2026-23327,     CVE-2026-23393, CVE-2026-23469, CVE-2026-31420, CVE-2026-31479, CVE-2026-31486, CVE-2026-31493,     CVE-2026-31560, CVE-2026-31568, CVE-2026-31630, CVE-2026-31663, CVE-2026-31771, CVE-2026-43009,     CVE-2026-43029, CVE-2026-43042, CVE-2026-43048, CVE-2026-43101, CVE-2026-43116, CVE-2026-43126,     CVE-2026-43172, CVE-2026-43213, CVE-2026-43263, CVE-2026-43303, CVE-2026-43352, CVE-2026-43353,     CVE-2026-43464, CVE-2026-45850, CVE-2026-45894, CVE-2026-45932, CVE-2026-45944, CVE-2026-46054,     CVE-2026-46130, CVE-2026-46158, CVE-2026-46170, CVE-2026-46175, CVE-2026-46181, CVE-2026-46203,     CVE-2026-46275, CVE-2026-46315, CVE-2026-46320, CVE-2026-46324, CVE-2026-46330, CVE-2026-52908,     CVE-2026-52909, CVE-2026-52910, CVE-2026-52912, CVE-2026-52915, CVE-2026-52916, CVE-2026-52918,     CVE-2026-52919, CVE-2026-52921, CVE-2026-52922, CVE-2026-52926, CVE-2026-52934, CVE-2026-52941,     CVE-2026-52956, CVE-2026-52988, CVE-2026-52991, CVE-2026-53000, CVE-2026-53005, CVE-2026-53009,     CVE-2026-53024, CVE-2026-53025, CVE-2026-53053, CVE-2026-53070, CVE-2026-53078, CVE-2026-53089,     CVE-2026-53090, CVE-2026-53091, CVE-2026-53109, CVE-2026-53118, CVE-2026-53120, CVE-2026-53129,     CVE-2026-53131, CVE-2026-53132, CVE-2026-53133, CVE-2026-53148, CVE-2026-53159, CVE-2026-53182,     CVE-2026-53183, CVE-2026-53185, CVE-2026-53186, CVE-2026-53196, CVE-2026-53198, CVE-2026-53216,     CVE-2026-53217, CVE-2026-53221, CVE-2026-53230, CVE-2026-53232, CVE-2026-53239, CVE-2026-53250,     CVE-2026-53254, CVE-2026-53256, CVE-2026-53262, CVE-2026-53264, CVE-2026-53266, CVE-2026-53269,     CVE-2026-53270, CVE-2026-53273, CVE-2026-53275, CVE-2026-53281, CVE-2026-53284, CVE-2026-53354,     CVE-2026-53355, CVE-2026-53357, CVE-2026-53358, CVE-2026-53361, CVE-2026-53368, CVE-2026-53384,     CVE-2026-53398, CVE-2026-53399, CVE-2026-63795, CVE-2026-63796, CVE-2026-63797, CVE-2026-63800,     CVE-2026-63801, CVE-2026-63804, CVE-2026-63807, CVE-2026-63808, CVE-2026-63815, CVE-2026-63818,     CVE-2026-63825, CVE-2026-63828, CVE-2026-63829, CVE-2026-63830, CVE-2026-63831, CVE-2026-63853,     CVE-2026-63858, CVE-2026-63886, CVE-2026-63887, CVE-2026-63888, CVE-2026-63893, CVE-2026-63906,     CVE-2026-63912, CVE-2026-63914, CVE-2026-63915, CVE-2026-63916, CVE-2026-63917, CVE-2026-63919,     CVE-2026-63921, CVE-2026-63922, CVE-2026-63924, CVE-2026-63926, CVE-2026-63940, CVE-2026-63944,     CVE-2026-63945, CVE-2026-63946, CVE-2026-63947, CVE-2026-63948, CVE-2026-63952, CVE-2026-63974,     CVE-2026-63975, CVE-2026-63976, CVE-2026-63978, CVE-2026-63979, CVE-2026-63980, CVE-2026-63984,     CVE-2026-63992, CVE-2026-63993, CVE-2026-63994, CVE-2026-64000, CVE-2026-64007, CVE-2026-64010,     CVE-2026-64011, CVE-2026-64015, CVE-2026-64018, CVE-2026-64025, CVE-2026-64029, CVE-2026-64032,     CVE-2026-64033, CVE-2026-64034, CVE-2026-64039, CVE-2026-64046, CVE-2026-64047, CVE-2026-64048,     CVE-2026-64051, CVE-2026-64055, CVE-2026-64056, CVE-2026-64064, CVE-2026-64073, CVE-2026-64076,     CVE-2026-64077, CVE-2026-64082, CVE-2026-64083, CVE-2026-64084, CVE-2026-64085, CVE-2026-64086,     CVE-2026-64087, CVE-2026-64088, CVE-2026-64089, CVE-2026-64091, CVE-2026-64092, CVE-2026-64093,     CVE-2026-64096, CVE-2026-64097, CVE-2026-64098, CVE-2026-64099, CVE-2026-64102, CVE-2026-64103,     CVE-2026-64106, CVE-2026-64108, CVE-2026-64109, CVE-2026-64111, CVE-2026-64112, CVE-2026-64113,     CVE-2026-64114, CVE-2026-64115, CVE-2026-64116, CVE-2026-64117, CVE-2026-64118, CVE-2026-64121,     CVE-2026-64125, CVE-2026-64126, CVE-2026-64127, CVE-2026-64128, CVE-2026-64133, CVE-2026-64134,     CVE-2026-64135, CVE-2026-64136, CVE-2026-64137, CVE-2026-64138, CVE-2026-64144, CVE-2026-64147,     CVE-2026-64148, CVE-2026-64153, CVE-2026-64155, CVE-2026-64160, CVE-2026-64163, CVE-2026-64165,     CVE-2026-64166, CVE-2026-64168, CVE-2026-64170, CVE-2026-64173, CVE-2026-64174, CVE-2026-64177,     CVE-2026-64178, CVE-2026-64179, CVE-2026-64180, CVE-2026-64182, CVE-2026-64183, CVE-2026-64184,     CVE-2026-64185, CVE-2026-64191, CVE-2026-64206, CVE-2026-64214, CVE-2026-64217, CVE-2026-64218,     CVE-2026-64219, CVE-2026-64220, CVE-2026-64221, CVE-2026-64225, CVE-2026-64231, CVE-2026-64237,     CVE-2026-64247, CVE-2026-64249, CVE-2026-64268, CVE-2026-64269, CVE-2026-64280, CVE-2026-64303,     CVE-2026-64313, CVE-2026-64315, CVE-2026-64319, CVE-2026-64320, CVE-2026-64355, CVE-2026-64361,     CVE-2026-64364, CVE-2026-64382, CVE-2026-64383, CVE-2026-64384, CVE-2026-64385, CVE-2026-64386,     CVE-2026-64387, CVE-2026-64390, CVE-2026-64391, CVE-2026-64392, CVE-2026-64393, CVE-2026-64394,     CVE-2026-64396, CVE-2026-64397, CVE-2026-64399, CVE-2026-64400, CVE-2026-64408, CVE-2026-64438,     CVE-2026-64441, CVE-2026-64445, CVE-2026-64450, CVE-2026-64475, CVE-2026-64510, CVE-2026-64518,     CVE-2026-64523, CVE-2026-64529, CVE-2026-64530, CVE-2026-64534, CVE-2026-64535, CVE-2026-64541,     CVE-2026-64548, CVE-2026-64551, CVE-2026-64552, CVE-2026-64554, CVE-2026-64555, CVE-2026-64557,     CVE-2026-64561, CVE-2026-64562, CVE-2026-64564, CVE-2026-64586, CVE-2026-64597, CVE-2026-64598,     CVE-2026-68082, CVE-2026-68083, CVE-2026-68117, CVE-2026-68123, CVE-2026-68124, CVE-2026-68127,     CVE-2026-68136, CVE-2026-68137, CVE-2026-68138, CVE-2026-68144, CVE-2026-68147, CVE-2026-68152,     CVE-2026-68154, CVE-2026-68156, CVE-2026-68158, CVE-2026-68159, CVE-2026-68160, CVE-2026-68161,     CVE-2026-68162, CVE-2026-68198, CVE-2026-68206, CVE-2026-68209, CVE-2026-68210, CVE-2026-68213,     CVE-2026-68228, CVE-2026-68229, CVE-2026-68300, CVE-2026-68302, CVE-2026-68343, CVE-2026-68381,     CVE-2026-68388, CVE-2026-68426, CVE-2026-68431, CVE-2026-68457, CVE-2026-68461, CVE-2026-68470,     CVE-2026-68476, CVE-2026-68477, CVE-2026-72014, CVE-2026-72020, CVE-2026-72033, CVE-2026-72041,     CVE-2026-72065, CVE-2026-72069, CVE-2026-72071, CVE-2026-72083, CVE-2026-72084, CVE-2026-72085,     CVE-2026-72098, CVE-2026-72111, CVE-2026-72124, CVE-2026-72125, CVE-2026-72126, CVE-2026-72129,     CVE-2026-72130, CVE-2026-72191, CVE-2026-72192, CVE-2026-72194, CVE-2026-72200, CVE-2026-72217,     CVE-2026-72221, CVE-2026-72222, CVE-2026-72226, CVE-2026-72234, CVE-2026-72251, CVE-2026-72255,     CVE-2026-72288, CVE-2026-72289, CVE-2026-72296, CVE-2026-72299, CVE-2026-72317, CVE-2026-72318,     CVE-2026-72319, CVE-2026-72320, CVE-2026-72322, CVE-2026-72323, CVE-2026-72329, CVE-2026-72339,     CVE-2026-72348, CVE-2026-72351, CVE-2026-72380, CVE-2026-72383, CVE-2026-72398, CVE-2026-72399,     CVE-2026-72421, CVE-2026-72422, CVE-2026-72434, CVE-2026-72436, CVE-2026-72451, CVE-2026-72454,     CVE-2026-72466, CVE-2026-72472, CVE-2026-72473, CVE-2026-72487, CVE-2026-72488, CVE-2026-72489,     CVE-2026-72491, CVE-2026-72494, CVE-2026-72495, CVE-2026-72496, CVE-2026-72499, CVE-2026-74255,     CVE-2026-74264, CVE-2026-74267, CVE-2026-74268, CVE-2026-74269, CVE-2026-74279, CVE-2026-74280,     CVE-2026-74287, CVE-2026-74302, CVE-2026-74305, CVE-2026-74310, CVE-2026-74345, CVE-2026-74350,     CVE-2026-74376, CVE-2026-74384, CVE-2026-74394, CVE-2026-74398, CVE-2026-74401, CVE-2026-74405,     CVE-2026-74406, CVE-2026-74407, CVE-2026-74408, CVE-2026-74410, CVE-2026-74411, CVE-2026-74417,     CVE-2026-74427, CVE-2026-74436, CVE-2026-74439, CVE-2026-74440, CVE-2026-74473, CVE-2026-74474,     CVE-2026-74475, CVE-2026-74476, CVE-2026-74478, CVE-2026-74480, CVE-2026-74493, CVE-2026-74495,     CVE-2026-74521, CVE-2026-74538, CVE-2026-74541, CVE-2026-74556, CVE-2026-74569)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - tracing/user_events: Fix use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup() user_event_mm_dup() walks the parent mm's     enabler list locklessly under rcu_read_lock() during fork() (from copy_process()); it does not take     event_mutex: rcu_read_lock(); list_for_each_entry_rcu(enabler, &old_mm->enablers, mm_enablers_link)     enabler->event = user_event_get(orig->event); user_event_enabler_destroy() removes an enabler from that     list with list_del_rcu() and then, without waiting for a grace period, drops the enabler's user_event     reference with user_event_put() and frees the enabler with kfree(). A reader that loaded the enabler     before the list_del_rcu() can still be walking it, which leads to two use-after-frees: - kfree(enabler)     frees the enabler while that reader dereferences enabler->event. - user_event_put() may drop the last     reference to the user_event, which is then freed (via delayed_destroy_user_event() on a work queue), while     the same reader does user_event_get(orig->event) on it. Both are reachable by an unprivileged task that     can open user_events_data: one multithreaded process that registers an enabler and then concurrently     unregisters it and calls fork() triggers the race. KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free in     user_event_mm_dup() during clone(), with a refcount_t: addition on 0 warning when the user_event is     freed. The enabler use-after-free was found first; the user_event one was reported by XIAO WU, and the     earlier enabler-only fix did not address it. Defer both the user_event_put() and the kfree(enabler) to a     work item queued with queue_rcu_work(), so they run only after an RCU grace period, once all readers     walking the enabler list have finished. The put must run in process context because user_event_put() takes     event_mutex on the last reference, so a work queue is used rather than call_rcu(). The now-unlocked put     lets the locked argument of user_event_enabler_destroy() be removed; all callers are updated.
    (CVE-2026-72071)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the linux package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
348386	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (NVIDIA Tegra) vulnerabilities (USN-8781-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
341880	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.18, kernel6.18, kernel6.18-devel (ALAS2023-2026-2071)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
337239	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.12, kernel6.12, kernel6.12-devel (ALAS2023-2026-2057)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
337196	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72071	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
334784	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2026-5.0-92-0952	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high

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