Improper control of a resource through its lifetime in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-53154

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Improper control of a resource through its lifetime in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-53154

Published: June 26, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU135638
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53154
CWE-ID: CWE-664
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to improper state management in mm/hugetlb.c hugetlb folio copy paths when handling failed hugetlb folio copy operations. A local user can trigger a failed UFFDIO_COPY operation or a fork-time copy-on-write path failure to cause a denial of service.

The issue can leak a reservation from a private hugetlb VMA reserve map, which may cause a later fault at the same address to take the no-reservation path and receive SIGBUS under hugetlb pool pressure.


Affected software

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2026-53154

Install security update from vendor's repository.

Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3
linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-31.31, 7.0.0-31.31.1, 7.0.0-31.31~24.04.1, 7.0.0-1006.7, 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1, 7.0.0-1012.12, 7.0.0-1012.12~24.04.1
linux-gcp-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1013.13

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