CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53274
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-07-08
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: fix sleep-inside-lock in __smc_setsockopt() causing local DoS
A logic flaw in __smc_setsockopt() allows a local unprivileged user to
cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by holding the socket lock indefinitely.
The function __smc_setsockopt() calls copy_from_sockptr() while holding
lock_sock(sk). By passing a userfaultfd-monitored memory page (or
FUSE-backed memory on systems where unprivileged userfaultfd is disabled)
as the optval, an attacker can halt execution during the copy operation,
keeping the lock held.
Combined with asynchronous tear-down operations like shutdown(), this
exhausts the kernel wq (kworkers) and triggers the hung task watchdog.
[ 240.123456] INFO: task kworker/u8:2 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 240.123489] Call Trace:
[ 240.123501] smc_shutdown+...
[ 240.123512] lock_sock_nested+...
This patch moves the user-space copy outside the lock_sock() critical
section to prevent the issue.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 6.1.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.143)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.94)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.13)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35a22117839602bb52283de08894c5a7dde92420 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d27d2ffe487df89ce28fda0410eafa05dbe03a0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f6fbe0033c942cb790ffd53ca93a45eeaf1c91 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94d286fa5eedc550d42bcb9c85416af8f77736ff Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3fdd924d88c30b9f488636ce0e4696012cf5511 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcd90f42a33e4220385f27b515183d0c91b2fc4a Patch