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  "cveId": "CVE-2026-74264",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-74264",
  "summary": "CVE-2026-74264 is fixed in 20 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74264, released August 15, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "net: watchdog: fix refcount tracking races",
  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  net: watchdog: fix refcount tracking races  Blamed commit converted the untracked dev_hold()/dev_put() calls in the watchdog code to use the tracked dev_hold_track()/dev_put_track() (which were later renamed/interfaced to netdev_hold() and netdev_put()).  By introducing dev-\u003Ewatchdog_dev_tracker to store the reference tracking information without adding synchronization between netdev_watchdog_up() and dev_watchdog(), it enabled the race condition where this pointer could be overwritten or freed concurrently, leading to the list corruption crash syzbot reported:  list_del corruption, ffff888114a18c00-\u003Enext is NULL  kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:52 ! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 91 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026 Workqueue: events_unbound linkwatch_event  RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold\u002B0x22/0x2a lib/list_debug.c:52 Call Trace:  \u003CTASK\u003E   __list_del_entry_valid include/linux/list.h:132 [inline]   __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:246 [inline]   list_move_tail include/linux/list.h:341 [inline]   ref_tracker_free\u002B0x1a7/0x6c0 lib/ref_tracker.c:329   netdev_tracker_free include/linux/netdevice.h:4491 [inline]   netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4508 [inline]   netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4504 [inline]   netdev_watchdog_down net/sched/sch_generic.c:600 [inline]   dev_deactivate_many\u002B0x28c/0xfe0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1363   dev_deactivate\u002B0x109/0x1d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1397   linkwatch_do_dev net/core/link_watch.c:184 [inline]   linkwatch_do_dev\u002B0xd3/0x120 net/core/link_watch.c:166   __linkwatch_run_queue\u002B0x3a5/0x810 net/core/link_watch.c:240   linkwatch_event\u002B0x8f/0xc0 net/core/link_watch.c:314   process_one_work\u002B0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314   process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]   worker_thread\u002B0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478   kthread\u002B0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436   ret_from_fork\u002B0x69a/0xc80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158   ret_from_fork_asm\u002B0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245  This patch has three coordinated parts:  1) Add dev-\u003Ewatchdog_lock and dev-\u003Ewatchdog_ref_held to serialize watchdog operations.  2) Remove netdev_watchdog_up() call from netif_carrier_on():    This ensures netdev_watchdog_up() is only called from process/BH context    (via linkwatch workqueue dev_activate()), allowing us to use    spin_lock_bh() for synchronization.  3) Synchronize watchdog up and watchdog timer:    Protect netdev_watchdog_up() with tx_global_lock and watchdog_lock.    Only allocate a new tracker in netdev_watchdog_up() if one is    not already present.    In dev_watchdog(), ensure we don\u0027t release the tracker if the    timer was rescheduled either by dev_watchdog() itself or concurrently    by netdev_watchdog_up().",
  "published": "2026-08-15T06:22:25Z",
  "severity": "Moderate",
  "cvss": 7.8,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
  "epss": 0.00176,
  "epssPercentile": 0.07122,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "vendorAdvisory": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-74264",
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