CVE-2026-23106

timekeeping: Adjust the leap state for the correct auxiliary timekeeper

published February 4, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

timekeeping: Adjust the leap state for the correct auxiliary timekeeper

When __do_ajdtimex() was introduced to handle adjtimex for any

timekeeper, this reference to tk_core was not updated. When called on an

auxiliary timekeeper, the core timekeeper would be updated incorrectly.

This gets caught by the lock debugging diagnostics because the

timekeepers sequence lock gets written to without holding its

associated spinlock:

WARNING: include/linux/seqlock.h:226 at __do_adjtimex+0x394/0x3b0, CPU#2: test/125

aux_clock_adj (kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2979)

__do_sys_clock_adjtime (kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1161 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1173)

do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:131)

Update the correct auxiliary timekeeper.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00117 · 1.6th percentile
Published
2026-02-04T16:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 FEB 16:08Z
    timekeeping: Adjust the leap state for the correct auxiliary timekeeper
    cvelistv5