7.8

CVE-2026-53162: linux

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-53162DEBIAN-CVE-2026-53162CGA-3w83-4p4x-8rjw
Published 25-06-2026Last modified 05-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-53162 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.13%
0%100%
Low · -0.05 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 12 · Related 12
MGASA-2026-0312USN-8726-1USN-8726-2USN-8726-3USN-8726-4USN-8727-1

Timeline

  1. 25-06-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: use round-robin victim selection in refill_stock Harry Yoo reported that get_random_u32_below() is not safe to call in the nmi context and memcg charge draining can happen in nmi context. More specifically get_random_u32_below() is neither reentrant- nor NMI-safe: it acquires a per-cpu local_lock via local_lock_irqsave() on the batched_entropy_u32 state. An NMI that lands on a CPU mid-update of the ChaCha batch state and recurses into the random subsystem would corrupt that state. The memcg_stock local_trylock prevents re-entry on the percpu stock itself, but cannot protect an unrelated subsystem's per-cpu lock. Replace the random pick with a per-cpu round-robin counter stored in memcg_stock_pcp and serialized by the same local_trylock that already guards cached[] and nr_pages[]. No atomics, no random calls, no extra locks needed.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.13%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

2%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.05 pp

From 0.17% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.13%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu119 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.0.0-31.31
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.0.0-1012.12
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Chainguard8 products
  • linux-aws-6.18< 6.18.38-r0
  • linux-azure-6.18< 6.18.38-r0
  • linux-gcp-6.18< 6.18.38-r0
  • linux-gcp-6.18-bootc-boot-installed< 6.18.38-r0
  • linux-qemu-6.18< 6.18.38-r0
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d, < 89bd8215e25aa6999cc51696da418e0d422bc5e0 | ≥ f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d, < 00731bd7e18f182a32ca54d6b176eaa470b51ed7 | ≥ f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d, < c0cafe24d3f6534294c4b2bc2d47734ff7cbd313 | 6.16
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.18.36 | ≥ 6.19, < 7.0.13 | 7.1:rc1 | 7.1:rc2 | 7.1:rc3 | 7.1:rc4 | 7.1:rc5 | 7.1:rc6
Debian1 product
  • linux< 7.0.13-1

4 vendors · 130 products

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