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CVE-2026-53085

bpf: fix mm lifecycle in open-coded task_vma iterator

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.12.91, 6.18.33, 7.0.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 · fixed in 239cec25a22662dbd80f57d94b38178c8be95269; From 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 · fixed in d0862de7c866c5bd7c32531f66738c21197af888; From 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 · fixed in 43683bb280330f3d36f0f2a3932a4867b9603e9c; From 4ac4546821584736798aaa9e97da9f6eaf689ea3 · fixed in d8e27d2d22b6e2df3a0125b8c08e9aace38c954c

  • Linux Linux

    6.7

  • KernelLinux

    From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.91; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.33; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.0.10

References 4

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