Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-53187

Linux Linux

RDMA/core: Validate cpu_id against nr_cpu_ids in DMAH alloc

CVSS 3.1
7.1High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: Validate cpu_id against nr_cpu_ids in DMAH alloc The cpu_id attribute supplied by user space through UVERBS_ATTR_ALLOC_DMAH_CPU_ID is passed directly to cpumask_test_cpu() without first verifying that the value is within the valid CPU range. Passing such untrusted data to cpumask_test_cpu() may lead to an out-of-bounds read of the underlying cpumask bitmap: the helper expands to a test_bit() that indexes the bitmap by cpu_id / BITS_PER_LONG with no bound check. In addition, on kernels built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS it trips the WARN_ON_ONCE() in cpumask_check(); combined with panic_on_warn this turns a bad user input into a machine reboot. Reject any cpu_id that is not smaller than nr_cpu_ids with -EINVAL before it is used. Reported by Smatch.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.1High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.17 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux d83edab562a496a42720902a1d2effccd05c37c5 ≤ v < bd5e818be7964c1689fba2dad9e6bd3a827fee74 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux d83edab562a496a42720902a1d2effccd05c37c5 ≤ v < 0efbb6b54ff56300867027d8e0800d0e32226a20 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux d83edab562a496a42720902a1d2effccd05c37c5 ≤ v < 323c98a4ff06aa28114f2bf658fb43eb3b536bbc CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-06-25
Last updated
2026-10-19
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.16%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
5.6%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-125
    Out-of-bounds Read