CVE-2026-53185

zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()

zram_read_page() picks the sync or async backing device read path based on whether the parent bio is NULL. zram_bvec_write_partial() passes its parent bio down, so for ZRAM_WB slots the read is dispatched asynchronously and zram_read_page() returns 0 while the bio is still in flight. The caller then runs memcpy_from_bvec(), zram_write_page() and __free_page() on the buffer, leaving the async read to write into a freed page.

zram_bvec_read_partial() was switched to NULL in commit 4e3c87b9421d ("zram: fix synchronous reads") for the same reason; the write_partial counterpart was missed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.17.0 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-364 Signal Handler Race Condition

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8e654f8fbff52ac483fb69957222853d7e2fc588 to before 0c2821665ff71be3f4b07ecece384669f2877f6aAffected
  • 8e654f8fbff52ac483fb69957222853d7e2fc588 to before 77a602b505ce4802915853cfc435a4722fab3e64Affected
  • 8e654f8fbff52ac483fb69957222853d7e2fc588 to before c96786d6ff1acc1d54d9241e97767554c1dfdd5bAffected
  • 8e654f8fbff52ac483fb69957222853d7e2fc588 to before 198b5a14cca27263b9c14b20114c8092de15dfcbAffected
  • 8e654f8fbff52ac483fb69957222853d7e2fc588 to before 732fd9f0b9c1cdc6dfd77162ded60df005182cc0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.14Affected
  • before 4.14Not affected
  • 6.6.143 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.94 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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