Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-22986)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-22986). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.83, 6.18.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

gpiolib: fix race condition for gdev->srcu

If two drivers were calling gpiochip_add_data_with_key(), one may be
traversing the srcu-protected list in gpio_name_to_desc(), meanwhile
other has just added its gdev in gpiodev_add_to_list_unlocked().
This creates a non-mutexed and non-protected timeframe, when one
instance is dereferencing and using &gdev->srcu, before the other
has initialized it, resulting in crash:

[ 4.935481] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff800272bcc000
[ 4.943396] Mem abort info:
[ 4.943400] ESR = 0x0000000096000005
[ 4.943403] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 4.943407] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 4.943410] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 4.943413] FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
[ 4.943416] Data abort info:
[ 4.943418] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 4.946220] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 4.955261] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 4.955268] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000038e6c000
[ 4.961449] [ffff800272bcc000] pgd=0000000000000000
[ 4.969203] , p4d=1000000039739003
[ 4.979730] , pud=0000000000000000
[ 4.980210] phandle (CPU): 0x0000005e, phandle (BE): 0x5e000000 for node "reset"
[ 4.991736] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
[ 5.121359] pc : __srcu_read_lock+0x44/0x98
[ 5.131091] lr : gpio_name_to_desc+0x6…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22986 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.83, 6.18.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2026-22986" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-22986 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.83, 6.18.6 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.12.83, 6.18.6.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 6.12.83, 6.18.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.83, 6.18.6 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.9.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.83"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-22986 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.85-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-22986 linux Fixed in: 6.12.85-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-22986 linux-hwe-edge