5.5

CVE-2026-53164: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-53164DEBIAN-CVE-2026-53164CGA-5w68-hcgm-c927
Published 25-06-2026Last modified 25-06-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-53164 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.12%
0%100%
Low · -0.04 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.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/dma: Do not try to iommu_map a 0 length region in swiotlb iommu_dma_iova_link_swiotlb() processes a mapping that is unaligned in three parts, the head, middle and trailer. If the middle is empty because there are no aligned pages it will call down to iommu_map() with a 0 size which the iommupt implementation will fail as illegal. It then tries to do an error unwind and starts from the wrong spot corrupting the mapping so the eventual destruction triggers a WARN_ON. Check for 0 length and avoid mapping and use offset not 0 as the starting point to unlink. This is frequently triggered by using some kinds of thunderbolt NVMe drives that trigger forced SWIOTLB for unaligned memory. NVMe seems to pass in oddly aligned buffers for the passthrough commands from smartctl that hit this condition.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.12%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

2%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.04 pp

From 0.16% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.12%

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)
Chainguard7 products
  • 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
  • linux-qemu-6.18-bootc-boot-installed< 6.18.38-r0
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 433a76207dcf5facc0183acb790f6e8398585258, < ab61c990a87d084f5565ee70340543e3a5394697 | ≥ 433a76207dcf5facc0183acb790f6e8398585258, < b16f8d40bac9ced838d24c9842707af9ecae92e2 | ≥ 433a76207dcf5facc0183acb790f6e8398585258, < 6ec91df8aff77e2e8fe3179c1f3fc15b43a40ba3 | 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 | 7.1:rc7
Debian1 product
  • linux< 7.0.13-1

4 vendors · 129 products

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