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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53161" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:38:42.789Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:33:36.090Z" 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-2026-53161" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53161.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53161" title: "misc: fastrpc: fix use-after-free of fastrpc_user in workqueue context" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmisc: fastrpc: fix use-after-free of fastrpc_user in workqueue context\n\nThere is a race between fastrpc_device_release() and the workqueue\nthat processes DSP responses. When the user closes the file descriptor,\nfastrpc_device_release() frees the fastrpc_user structure. Concurrently,\nan in-flight DSP invocation can complete and fastrpc_rpmsg_callback()\nschedules context cleanup via schedule_work(&ctx-\u003eput_work). If the\nworkqueue runs fastrpc_context_free() in parallel with or after\nfastrpc_device_release() has freed the user structure, it dereferences\nthe freed fastrpc_user. Depending on the state of the context at the\ntime of the race, any one of the following accesses can be hit:\n\n 1. fastrpc_buf_free() calls fastrpc_ipa_to_dma_addr(buf-\u003efl-\u003ecctx, ...)\n to strip the SID bits from the stored IOVA before passing the\n physical address to dma_free_coherent().\n\n 2. fastrpc_free_map() reads map-\u003efl-\u003ecctx-\u003evmperms[0].vmid to\n reconstruct the source permission bitmask needed for the\n qcom_scm_assign_mem() call that returns memory from the DSP VM\n back to HLOS.\n\n 3. fastrpc_free_map() acquires map-\u003efl-\u003elock to safely remove the\n map node from the fl-\u003emaps list.\n\nThe resulting use-after-free manifests as:\n\n pc : fastrpc_buf_free+0x38/0x80 [fastrpc]\n lr : fastrpc_context_free+0xa8/0x1b0 [fastrpc]\n fastrpc_context_free+0xa8/0x1b0 [fastrpc]\n fastrpc_context_put_wq+0x78/0xa0 [fastrpc]\n process_one_work+0x180/0x450\n worker_thread+0x26c/0x388\n\nAdd kref-based reference counting to fastrpc_user. Have each invoke\ncontext take a reference on the user at allocation time and release it\nwhen the context is freed. Release the initial reference in\nfastrpc_device_release() at file close. Move the teardown of the user\nstructure — freeing pending contexts, maps, mmaps, and the channel\ncontext reference — into the kref release callback fastrpc_user_free(),\nso that it runs only when the last reference is dropped, regardless of\nwhether that happens at device close or after the final in-flight\ncontext completes." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c6e5c2be09f814377d7f1ce97370a5b7b3e02814"},{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1e3a05efe5954d5bad01157d79429d39a67a7ae"},{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d42679eef34dd590b694ce3b666c5e2ba10cd4bf"},{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df08fadcf0e5f3708365ec3b6d30b5aafd98bea1"},{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ecea4967c2bff92c2fafbc59893f711b39f7b152"},{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5278ccd357e0d7aeeb1e76c0f3e0e02894a9897c"},{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbe0947420eec18a84638d29468c2d563ce4e6a3"},{"version":"6cffd79504ce040f460831030d3069fa1c99bb71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e85eb5feca8e254905ffa6c57a3c99c89a674a0f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","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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