CVE-2026-53185

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

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

Additional References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53185
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492735
• https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53185.json

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c2821665ff71be3f4b07ecece384669f2877f6a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a602b505ce4802915853cfc435a4722fab3e64
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c96786d6ff1acc1d54d9241e97767554c1dfdd5b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/198b5a14cca27263b9c14b20114c8092de15dfcb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/732fd9f0b9c1cdc6dfd77162ded60df005182cc0

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