Vulnerability details
CVE-2026-53187
RDMA/core: Validate cpu_id against nr_cpu_ids in DMAH alloc
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
| Score | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
3Details
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- Last updated
- 2026-10-19
- State
- Published
- Assigner (CNA)
- Linux
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
SSVC assessment (CISA)
- Automatable
- No
- Exploitation
- None
- Technical impact
- Partial
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read