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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53085"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:25.232Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:47:16.049Z"
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-2026-53085"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53085.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53085"
title: "bpf: fix mm lifecycle in open-coded task_vma iterator"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: fix mm lifecycle in open-coded task_vma iterator\n\nThe open-coded task_vma iterator reads task-\u003emm locklessly and acquires\nmmap_read_trylock() but never calls mmget(). If the task exits\nconcurrently, the mm_struct can be freed as it is not\nSLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, resulting in a use-after-free.\n\nSafely read task-\u003emm with a trylock on alloc_lock and acquire an mm\nreference. Drop the reference via bpf_iter_mmput_async() in _destroy()\nand error paths. bpf_iter_mmput_async() is a local wrapper around\nmmput_async() with a fallback to mmput() on !CONFIG_MMU.\n\nReject irqs-disabled contexts (including NMI) up front. Operations used\nby _next() and _destroy() (mmap_read_unlock, bpf_iter_mmput_async)\ntake spinlocks with IRQs disabled (pool-\u003elock, pi_lock). Running from\nNMI or from a tracepoint that fires with those locks held could\ndeadlock.\n\nA trylock on alloc_lock is used instead of the blocking task_lock()\n(get_task_mm) to avoid a deadlock when a softirq BPF program iterates\na task that already holds its alloc_lock on the same CPU."
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