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

CVE-2026-53281
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat-SADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 68ec78beb4a3fb0877cbaaf49758c85410c05977 < d1a677f9c5e02c4ae49614044ac21296660d1391 ; affected 60f030f7418d3f1d94f2fb207fe3080e1844630b < 9022cb9ac0c2a72a57fa8ebf92ac74f953ca0153 ; affected 60f030f7418d3f1d94f2fb207fe3080e1844630b < cdfe3c9f2c9e28a8651ee463c88ad191ced2f840 ; affected 60f030f7418d3f1d94f2fb207fe3080e1844630b < 79ea2feb917b05366b49d85573c9c5331f043b2c ; affected df96876be3b064aefc493f760e0639765d13ed0d ; affected 6.12.57 < 6.12.114
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.14 ; unaffected 0 < 6.14 ; unaffected 6.12.114 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.33 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.0.10 ≤ 7.0.* ; unaffected 7.1 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD