CVE-2026-53185: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 99% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()
zram_read_page() picks the sync or async backing device read path based on
whether the parent bio is NULL. zram_bvec_write_partial() passes its
parent bio down, so for ZRAM_WB slots the read is dispatched
asynchronously and zram_read_page() returns 0 while the bio is still in
flight. The caller then runs memcpy_from_bvec(), zram_write_page() and
__free_page() on the buffer, leaving the async read to write into a freed
page.
zram_bvec_read_partial() was switched to NULL in commit 4e3c87b9421d
("zram: fix synchronous reads") for the same reason; the write_partial
counterpart was missed.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxRelated CVEs — Linux
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References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59723https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61887https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:63013https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:63014https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65708https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53185https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492735https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c2821665ff71be3f4b07ecece384669f2877f6ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/198b5a14cca27263b9c14b20114c8092de15dfcbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/732fd9f0b9c1cdc6dfd77162ded60df005182cc0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a602b505ce4802915853cfc435a4722fab3e64https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c96786d6ff1acc1d54d9241e97767554c1dfdd5b