Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-53345

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Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-53345

Published: July 11, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU137323
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53345
CWE-ID: CWE-703
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 handling of a warning condition in KVM memory dirty page tracking in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c when destroying a vCPU after certain SEV-ES VM-Exits without a subsequent KVM_RUN. A local user can trigger this condition to cause a denial of service.

The issue occurs in SEV-ES guest scenarios where KVM retains a writable mapping of a guest page across an exit to userspace.


Affected software

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
openEuler
python3-perf-debuginfo
kernel
bpftool
bpftool-debuginfo
kernel-debuginfo
kernel-debugsource
kernel-devel
kernel-headers
kernel-source
kernel-tools
kernel-tools-debuginfo
kernel-tools-devel
perf
perf-debuginfo
python3-perf
linux-gke (Ubuntu package)
linux-azure (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package)
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-oracle-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-azure-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-nvidia-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-nvidia (Ubuntu package)
linux-raspi (Ubuntu package)
linux-nvidia-bos (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2026-53345

Install security update from vendor's repository.

Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3
python3-perf-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
bpftool - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
bpftool-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-debugsource - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-devel - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-headers - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-source - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-tools - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-tools-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
kernel-tools-devel - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
perf - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
perf-debuginfo - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
python3-perf - update to 6.6.0-145.1.28.165
linux-gke (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 6.8.0-146.146.1~22.04.1, 6.8.0-146.146.1, 6.8.0-1051.55, 6.8.0-1063.66, 6.8.0-1064.67~22.04.1, 6.8.0-1064.67, 6.8.0-1064.67.1, 6.8.0-1065.73, 6.8.0-1066.67
linux-azure (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 6.8.0-1068.75~22.04.1, 6.8.0-1068.75, 6.8.0-1069.77+fips1, 6.8.0-1070.78~22.04.1, 6.8.0-1070.78, 7.0.0-1011.11, 7.0.0-1014.14
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package) - update to 6.8.0-1070.78
linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-31.31~24.04.1, 7.0.0-31.31, 7.0.0-31.31.1, 7.0.0-1006.7, 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1, 7.0.0-1012.12~24.04.1, 7.0.0-1012.12
linux-oracle-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1
linux-gcp-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1013.13
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1013.13
linux-azure-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1014.14~24.04.1
linux-nvidia-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1018.18~24.04.1
linux-nvidia (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1018.18
linux-raspi (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1019.19
linux-nvidia-bos (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-2018.18

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