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CVE-2026-53281

iommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption

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

iommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption

Commit 60f030f7418d ("iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE")
fixed a NULL pointer dereference in an unlikely situation partly.

If dev_pasid is not found in the dev_pasids list, it remains NULL.
However, the teardown operations are executed unconditionally, this lead
to a NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption.

If the domain was never attached to this IOMMU, info will be NULL, which
would cause an immediate dereference when checking --info->refcnt.

Even if info is not NULL, decrementing the refcount without having removed
a valid PASID might unbalance the count. This could lead to premature
dropping of the refcount to 0, potentially causing a use-after-free for the
remaining active devices sharing the domain.

Fix it by returning early if dev_pasid is NULL, before executing the
teardown operations.

Issue found by AI review and suggested by Kevin Tian.
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260421031347.1408890-1-zhenzhong.duan%40intel.com
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.12.57 < 6.13
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13.3 < 6.18.33
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.0.10
LinuxLinux Kernel Version7.1 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version7.1 Updaterc2
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.13% 0.026
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 8.8 2 6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c 7 1 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9022cb9ac0c2a72a57fa8ebf92ac74f953ca0153
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdfe3c9f2c9e28a8651ee463c88ad191ced2f840
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ea2feb917b05366b49d85573c9c5331f043b2c
Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2493728
Third Party Advisory
Issue Tracking
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53281.json
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53281
Third Party Advisory