CVE-2026-53085 (GCVE-0-2026-53085)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 16:30 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:09
VLAI
Title
bpf: fix mm lifecycle in open-coded task_vma iterator
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix mm lifecycle in open-coded task_vma iterator The open-coded task_vma iterator reads task->mm locklessly and acquires mmap_read_trylock() but never calls mmget(). If the task exits concurrently, the mm_struct can be freed as it is not SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, resulting in a use-after-free. Safely read task->mm with a trylock on alloc_lock and acquire an mm reference. Drop the reference via bpf_iter_mmput_async() in _destroy() and error paths. bpf_iter_mmput_async() is a local wrapper around mmput_async() with a fallback to mmput() on !CONFIG_MMU. Reject irqs-disabled contexts (including NMI) up front. Operations used by _next() and _destroy() (mmap_read_unlock, bpf_iter_mmput_async) take spinlocks with IRQs disabled (pool->lock, pi_lock). Running from NMI or from a tracepoint that fires with those locks held could deadlock. A trylock on alloc_lock is used instead of the blocking task_lock() (get_task_mm) to avoid a deadlock when a softirq BPF program iterates a task that already holds its alloc_lock on the same CPU.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-825 - Expired Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 , < 239cec25a22662dbd80f57d94b38178c8be95269 (git)
Affected: 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 , < d0862de7c866c5bd7c32531f66738c21197af888 (git)
Affected: 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 , < 43683bb280330f3d36f0f2a3932a4867b9603e9c (git)
Affected: 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 , < d8e27d2d22b6e2df3a0125b8c08e9aace38c954c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.91 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.33 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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