CVE-2026-53282
x86/kexec: Push kjump return address even for non-kjump kexec
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
26 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/kexec: Push kjump return address even for non-kjump kexec
The version of purgatory code shipped by kexec-tools attempts to look above
the top of its stack to find a return address for a kjump, even in a non-kjump
kexec.
After the commit in Fixes: the word above the stack might not be there,
leading to a fault (which is at least now caught by my exception-handling code
in kexec).
That commit fixed things for the actual kjump path, but no longer
"gratuitously" pushes the unused return address to the stack in the non-kjump
path. Put that *back* in the non-kjump path, to prevent purgatory from
crashing when trying to access it.
Affected products
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