Use-after-free in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-53094
Published: June 25, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU135217
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53094
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free in the BPF offload program pointer handling in kernel/bpf/core.c when destroying a network namespace after JIT compilation with constant blinding enabled for a dev-bound-only BPF program. A local user can trigger cleanup of a crafted dev-bound-only XDP program to cause a denial of service.
Exploitation requires net.core.bpf_jit_harden to be set to 2 or higher and affects dev-bound-only programs created with BPF_F_XDP_DEV_BOUND_ONLY.
How to mitigate CVE-2026-53094
Install security update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/059525cf18e69a9313baf947d8898c6ee7ca6b65
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25484c39d1ec82a0368798d956da3de5039b3fe8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1aa9ef47c299c5bbc30594d3c2f0589edf908e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a713b72ff88cdab4d5d692908ab1259ada511f4d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c79f8503d83d4665be461fb9e45e215d0380c67b