CVE-2026-53281

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
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30 Jun 2026, 03:20

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  • () https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53281 -
  • () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2493728 -
  • () https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53281.json -

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Information

Published : 2026-06-26 20:17

Updated : 2026-06-30 14:44


NVD link : CVE-2026-53281

Mitre link : CVE-2026-53281

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-53281


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