CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53311

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.11%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the FUSE filesystem where fuse_dentry_revalidate() may be called with a dentry having uninitialized ->d_time field. The issue was discovered by KMSAN and could lead to reading uninitialized memory.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential kernel memory information leak or unstable behavior of the FUSE filesystem, affecting applications relying on mounted FUSE filesystems.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2026-53311. Monitor official security advisories from your Linux distribution.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: fix uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate() fuse_dentry_revalidate() may be called with a dentry that didn't had ->d_time initialised. The issue was found with KMSAN, where lookup_open() calls __d_alloc(), followed by d_revalidate(), as shown below: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394 fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394 d_revalidate fs/namei.c:1030 [inline] lookup_open fs/namei.c:4405 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline] path_openat+0x1614/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827 do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859 [...] Uninit was created at: slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4466 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4788 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x382/0x1280 mm/slub.c:4807 __d_alloc+0x55/0xa00 fs/dcache.c:1740 d_alloc_parallel+0x99/0x2740 fs/dcache.c:2604 lookup_open fs/namei.c:4398 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline] path_openat+0x135f/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827 do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859 [...] =====================================================

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