Vulnerability in Linux

[ Description ]Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: printk: Don't WARN on kthread_run failure. Since __kthread_create_on_node() returns -EINTR upon SIGKILL, we should not use WARN_ON() in order to catch kthread_run() failure.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund24 Sep 2026WID-SEC-2026-3579

  Linux Kernel: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-97615CVE-2026-97978CVE-2026-98127+590 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• git.kernel.org/stable/c/0af43b52fe4b1751b731c067127fdf47cf1b700c
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/15ba35d632c38d879d182577b0af487de0f2dec4
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e676279798148382497d0e38c0bd51115e64be1
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/72dd0ec09e7cc98ed58ddeac26575e5d1ab8a93d