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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53064" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:07.536Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:07.536Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53064" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53064.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53064" title: "dm cache: fix null-deref with concurrent writes in passthrough mode" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm cache: fix null-deref with concurrent writes in passthrough mode\n\nIn passthrough mode, when dm-cache starts to invalidate a cache\nentry and bio prison cell lock fails due to concurrent write to\nthe same cached block, mg-\u003ecell remains NULL. The error path in\ninvalidate_complete() attempts to unlock and free the cell\nunconditionally, causing a NULL pointer dereference:\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 134 Comm: fio Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7 #3 PREEMPT\nRIP: 0010:dm_cell_unlock_v2+0x3f/0x210\n\u003csnip\u003e\nCall Trace:\n invalidate_complete+0xef/0x430\n map_bio+0x130f/0x1a10\n cache_map+0x320/0x6b0\n __map_bio+0x458/0x510\n dm_submit_bio+0x40e/0x16d0\n __submit_bio+0x419/0x870\n\u003csnip\u003e\n\nReproduce steps:\n\n1. Create a cache device\n\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 262144 linear /dev/sdc 262144\"\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 262144 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\n\n2. Promote the first data block into cache\n\nfio --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --name=populate --rw=write --bs=4k \\\n--direct=1 --size=64k\n\n3. Reload the cache into passthrough mode\n\ndmsetup suspend cache\ndmsetup reload cache --table \"0 262144 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 passthrough smq 0\"\ndmsetup resume cache\n\n4. Write to the first cached block concurrently\n\nfio --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --name test --rw=randwrite --bs=4k \\\n--randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --numjobs=2 --size 64k\n\nFix by checking if mg-\u003ecell is valid before attempting to unlock it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01264a6a3a3ad7ac1d73443299cd5a9568002454"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee38fb00e1a80f46a4990e38f25ecb04ae7b7417"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7fb6bc864c4910b344dafa36dd5028e9b980768"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0aa745fea1f8dc81bcdd0a45e215b6706727b482"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2635d541a93fd111e743cf14b6275dc81be2abc"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25dcc1989c194ba2b5fb6d03cbb9b83814ac0d15"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df3b8ef06cc62de4fca5d2108e285085b3cffd44"},{"version":"b29d4986d0da1a27cd35917cdb433672f5c95d7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d1f98d668ee34c1d15bdc0420fdd062f24a27c0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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