CVE-2026-53381

HIGH

virtiofs: fix UAF on submount umount

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtiofs: fix UAF on submount umount iput() called from fuse_release_end() can Oops if the super block has already been destroyed. Normally this is prevented by waiting for num_waiting to go down to zero before commencing with super block shutdown. This only works, however, for the last submount instance, as the wait counter is per connection, not per superblock. Revert to using synchronous release requests for the auto_submounts case, which is virtiofs only at this time.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (36)
linux/Kernel < 5.10.260linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.211linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.177linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.37linux
linux/Kernel 6.18.0 - 7.0.14linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.1.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.144linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.95linux
Linux/Linux < 6.18
Linux/Linux 26e5c67deb2e1f42a951f022fdf5b9f7eb747b01 - 06b41351779e9289e8785694ade9042ae85e41ea
... and 26 more
Published Jul 19, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 19, 2026