CVE-2026-53343

ANALYSIS PENDING

ARM: 9475/1: entry: use byte load for KASAN VMAP stack shadow

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9475/1: entry: use byte load for KASAN VMAP stack shadow Commit 44e9a3bb76e5 ("ARM: 9430/1: entry: Do a dummy read from VMAP shadow") added a dummy read from the KASAN VMAP stack shadow in __switch_to(). The read uses ldr, but the KASAN shadow address is byte-granular and is not guaranteed to be word aligned. ARMv5 faults unaligned word loads. With CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC and CONFIG_VMAP_STACK enabled, ARM926/VersatilePB crashes in __switch_to() with an alignment exception before reaching init. Use ldrb for the dummy shadow access. The code only needs to fault in the shadow mapping if the stack shadow is missing, so a byte load is sufficient and matches the granularity of KASAN shadow memory.

Scores

EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.6%

Details

Status published
Products (21)
linux/Kernel < 6.1.176linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 7.0.13linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.143linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.94linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 44e9a3bb76e5f2eecd374c8176b2c5163c8bb2e2 - 2a4dc9a0ac3326e79fb58fdaae724b92127709a9
Linux/Linux 44e9a3bb76e5f2eecd374c8176b2c5163c8bb2e2 - 517720913bd3c17a52cd55a740064f68455ab88e
Linux/Linux 44e9a3bb76e5f2eecd374c8176b2c5163c8bb2e2 - 77a1f6883dc6e837bb2cb30b9b02e2f94338e2c6
Linux/Linux 6.1.120 - 6.1.176
Linux/Linux 6.1.176 - 6.1.*
... and 11 more
Published Jul 01, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 01, 2026