CVE-2026-53085

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-53085

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's and Red Hat's web pages for any future patch releases.

References