CVE 7.1 HIGH

RDMA/core: Validate cpu_id against nr_cpu_ids in DMAH alloc_CVE-2026-53187

7.1 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-53187
Source Linux
Published Jun 25, 2026 at 08:39
Modified Jun 28, 2026 at 06:40

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version d83edab562a496a42720902a1d2effccd05c37c5
Affected Versions Linux Linux d83edab562a496a42720902a1d2effccd05c37c5
Linux Linux d83edab562a496a42720902a1d2effccd05c37c5
Linux Linux d83edab562a496a42720902a1d2effccd05c37c5
Linux Linux 6.17

References

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