Expired Pointer Dereference Affecting openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-OPENSHIFTOSERHELCOREOS8-19786034
- published14 Sept 2026
- disclosed11 Sept 2026
Introduced: 11 Sep 2026
NewCVE-2026-89746 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 package and not the openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers
When two hist triggers on different events are registered with the same name=, the second one reuses the first as named_data. Both are added to tr->hist_vars by save_hist_vars() during event_hist_trigger_parse(), because save_hist_vars() is called before event_trigger_register() while the named reuse is only detected later, in hist_register_trigger().
In the named-data branch hist_register_trigger() then frees the second histogram's hist_data via destroy_hist_data(), but never removes its tr->hist_vars list entry, leaving a dangling pointer and leaking the trace_array reference it holds.
A later hist trigger that references a variable makes find_var_file() walk tr->hist_vars and dereference the freed hist_data. The bug is reproducible from userspace by writing three hist triggers to tracefs:
cd /sys/kernel/tracing echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=common_pid:name=mh' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=common_pid:name=mh' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/trigger echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:vals=$x' > events/sched/sched_process_exit/trigger
The third write panics the kernel:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_var_file.part.0+0x272/0x290 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888001f8a0e0 by task sh/1 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: sh Tainted: G D N Call Trace: find_var_file.part.0 find_event_var parse_atom parse_expr __create_val_field event_hist_trigger_parse trigger_process_regex event_trigger_write vfs_write ksys_write do_syscall_64 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe Allocated by task 1: event_hist_trigger_parse Freed by task 1: hist_register_trigger+0x618/0xa30 event_hist_trigger_parse The buggy address belongs to freed 2048-byte region Oops: general protection fault ... RIP: find_var_file.part.0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
Fix by removing the hist_data from tr->hist_vars and releasing the trace_array reference in the named-data branch of hist_register_trigger() before freeing the hist_data.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-89746
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477d762be4b0ffaf01429ccd88859e93b0ec28cc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83d1ae0406d8eade219a81b401e201702dd9dc55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7318172aa332a161fb9618286e64454c827f8fd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1a49c22de01faf176d44e5caa765e237353a579
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a8534664426c071c2dfb5b4ffa36b18a2abfd79
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/441aa6742dff70297b5f64533a07a6189a026e91