CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53314

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 padata mechanism where the CPU offline callback was placed in a section that does not allow errors. It has been moved to the ONLINE section where errors are permitted to prevent warnings and potential issues.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves possible system disruption during CPU offline operations, which could lead to system instability or critical errors in multi-processor environments.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit addressing the issue) to avoid warnings and potential crashes during CPU hotplug operations.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure syzbot reported the following warning: DEAD callback error for CPU1 WARNING: kernel/cpu.c:1463 at _cpu_down+0x759/0x1020 kernel/cpu.c:1463, CPU#0: syz.0.1960/14614 at commit 4ae12d8bd9a8 ("Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux") which tglx traced to padata_cpu_dead() given it's the only sub-CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU callback that returns an error. Failure isn't allowed in hotplug states before CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU so move the CPU offline callback to the ONLINE section where failure is possible.

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