CVE-2026-99267 PUBLISHED

io_uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 03.11.2026 Updated: 03.11.2026

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

io_uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s

With dynamic tracking a NAPI id that hasn't been seen for a minute is meant to be dropped from the list the ring busy polls. The timeout is added to jiffies, but it is defined as 60 * SEC_CONVERSION, and SEC_CONVERSION isn't the number of jiffies in a second. It is the internal factor of __timespec64_to_jiffies(), HZ scaled up by SEC_JIFFIE_SC bits. For HZ=1000 that is 1000 << 22, which puts the timeout at about eight years. On 32-bit the multiplication overflows.

So entries are never removed, and every id that a socket of the ring ever had keeps being polled on each wait.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8d0c12a80cdeb80d5e0510e96d38fe551ed8e9b5 to 3fe820cf35f83534eab72ea73f1a83cfd3cd8079 (excl.)
  • affected from 8d0c12a80cdeb80d5e0510e96d38fe551ed8e9b5 to 18c373f446068972788158c8c7de6e849b04ed98 (excl.)
  • affected from 8d0c12a80cdeb80d5e0510e96d38fe551ed8e9b5 to 981621d6eadcd232d4ea748aaeb046337f10d3c1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.115 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.60 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.14 to 7.2.* (incl.)

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