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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-46173 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task When an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls do_task_dead() with preemption enabled. That is forbidden: do_task_dead() calls __schedu

[NVD] CVE-2026-46173 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task When an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls do_task_dead() with preemption enabled. That is forbidden: do_task_dead() calls __schedu

lownvdPublished 2026-05-28

CVE-2026-46173 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-05-28T10:16:32.923

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task

When an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls do_task_dead() with preemption enabled. That is forbidden: do_task_dead() calls __schedule(), which has a comment saying "WARNING: must be cal

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CVE-2026-46173cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46173