{"id":"CVE-2026-53274","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-53274","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:12:03.004Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: fix sleep-inside-lock in __smc_setsockopt() causing local DoS A logic flaw in __smc_setsockopt() allows a local unprivileged user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by holding…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix sleep-inside-lock in __smc_setsockopt() causing local DoS\n\nA logic flaw in __smc_setsockopt() allows a local unprivileged user to\ncause a Denial of Service (DoS) by holding the socket lock indefinitely.\n\nThe function __smc_setsockopt() calls copy_from_sockptr() while holding\nlock_sock(sk). By passing a userfaultfd-monitored memory page (or\nFUSE-backed memory on systems where unprivileged userfaultfd is disabled)\nas the optval, an attacker can halt execution during the copy operation,\nkeeping the lock held.\n\nCombined with asynchronous tear-down operations like shutdown(), this\nexhausts the kernel wq (kworkers) and triggers the hung task watchdog.\n\n[  240.123456] INFO: task kworker/u8:2 blocked for more than 120 seconds.\n[  240.123489] Call Trace:\n[  240.123501]  smc_shutdown+...\n[  240.123512]  lock_sock_nested+...\n\nThis patch moves the user-space copy outside the lock_sock() critical\nsection to prevent the issue.","published":"2026-06-25T09:16:46.000Z","lastModified":"2026-07-08T04:00:44.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00121,"percentile":0.01906,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35a22117839602bb52283de08894c5a7dde92420","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d27d2ffe487df89ce28fda0410eafa05dbe03a0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f6fbe0033c942cb790ffd53ca93a45eeaf1c91","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94d286fa5eedc550d42bcb9c85416af8f77736ff","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3fdd924d88c30b9f488636ce0e4696012cf5511","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcd90f42a33e4220385f27b515183d0c91b2fc4a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53274","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}