NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libperf (opens in a new tab)
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- published30 Jun 2026
- disclosed26 Jun 2026
Introduced: 26 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-53281 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libperf package and not the libperf package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption
Commit 60f030f7418d ("iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE") fixed a NULL pointer dereference in an unlikely situation partly.
If dev_pasid is not found in the dev_pasids list, it remains NULL. However, the teardown operations are executed unconditionally, this lead to a NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption.
If the domain was never attached to this IOMMU, info will be NULL, which would cause an immediate dereference when checking --info->refcnt.
Even if info is not NULL, decrementing the refcount without having removed a valid PASID might unbalance the count. This could lead to premature dropping of the refcount to 0, potentially causing a use-after-free for the remaining active devices sharing the domain.
Fix it by returning early if dev_pasid is NULL, before executing the teardown operations.
Issue found by AI review and suggested by Kevin Tian. https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260421031347.1408890-1-zhenzhong.duan%40intel.com
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2493728
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53281
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47017
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ea2feb917b05366b49d85573c9c5331f043b2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9022cb9ac0c2a72a57fa8ebf92ac74f953ca0153
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdfe3c9f2c9e28a8651ee463c88ad191ced2f840
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53281.json