CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53304
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-26
- Last modified
- 2026-07-06
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: sg: Resolve soft lockup issue when opening /dev/sgX
The parameter def_reserved_size defines the default buffer size reserved
for each Sg_fd and should be restricted to a range between 0 and 1,048,576
(see https://tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/proc.html). Although the
function sg_proc_write_dressz enforces this limit, it is possible to bypass
it by directly modifying the module parameter as shown below, which then
causes a soft lockup:
echo -1 > /sys/module/sg/parameters/def_reserved_size
exec 4<> /dev/sg0
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 26 seconds! [bash:537]
Modules loaded:
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 537 Command: bash, kernel version 6.19.0-rc3+ #134,
PREEMPT disabled
Hardware: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS version
1.16.1-2.fc37 dated 04/01/2014
...
Call Trace:
sg_build_reserve+0x5c/0xa0
sg_add_sfp+0x168/0x270
sg_open+0x16e/0x340
chrdev_open+0xbe/0x230
do_dentry_open+0x175/0x480
vfs_open+0x34/0xf0
do_open+0x265/0x3d0
path_openat+0x110/0x290
do_filp_open+0xc3/0x170
do_sys_openat2+0x71/0xe0
__x64_sys_openat+0x6d/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0x62/0x310
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
The fix is to use module_param_cb to validate and reject invalid values
assigned to def_reserved_size.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.19 < 5.10.258)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.209)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.141)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.91)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1afd963fcd963db0dc5d47df6dfcf010c9c4647e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d74e0654ac908c65a8f20373091826fe43b1363 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9676ca7b1ef31a3a65b3e61e7ce3b54ce7364202 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c47ccfb3d80dfed522ca06a5954ac97488d78c5a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5f4a211e82d04ccc1809311322c47023bbe66e2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d06a310b45e153872033dd0cf19d5a2279121099 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe671d3c84ffb1b763d590c25195755adeaadaba Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/feade299e932967de27519338d41de348fb5b061 Patch