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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53129"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:56.562Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:42:10.705Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53129"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53129.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53129"
title: "fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache\n\nmb_cache_destroy() calls shrinker_free() and then frees all cache\nentries and the cache itself, but it does not cancel the pending\nc_shrink_work work item first.\n\nIf mb_cache_entry_create() schedules c_shrink_work via schedule_work()\nand the work item is still pending or running when mb_cache_destroy()\nruns, mb_cache_shrink_worker() will access the cache after its memory\nhas been freed, causing a use-after-free.\n\nThis is only reachable by a privileged user (root or CAP_SYS_ADMIN)\nwho can trigger the last put of a mounted ext2/ext4/ocfs2 filesystem.\n\nCancel the work item with cancel_work_sync() before calling\nshrinker_free(), ensuring the worker has finished and will not be\nrescheduled before the cache is torn down."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c2f3140fe2eceb3a6c1615b2648b9471544881c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbdd6f0fb19a0ce8a013acd80ac87a62f57fa20d"},{"version":"c2f3140fe2eceb3a6c1615b2648b9471544881c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a88d39a74a208e197c03bffaa2df34de732af19f"},{"version":"c2f3140fe2eceb3a6c1615b2648b9471544881c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e4eff315d799f5842b95872199b0f0fb8ef5f51"},{"version":"c2f3140fe2eceb3a6c1615b2648b9471544881c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b25fd3523bef88fb7ffd4c5b63bbe9c08f73bb4c"},{"version":"c2f3140fe2eceb3a6c1615b2648b9471544881c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d227786ab1119669df4dc333a61510c52047cce4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.6"},{"version":"6.6.160","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"}]

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