CVE-2026-53314

MEDIUM

padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 1.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel 5.6.0 - 6.1.175linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.33linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.10linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.141linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.91linux
Linux/Linux < 5.6
Linux/Linux 0685dfa0a2ff7635c0b64f7b7f0fafbf1c3e0c14
Linux/Linux 2b1207801c393a5e9af2fbac2dd8b0377d8ae63a
Linux/Linux 3f4d3d010477365ee1aefedc3ad52563740b777e
Linux/Linux 4.19.202 - 4.20
... and 16 more
Published Jun 26, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 27, 2026