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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53281"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-26T19:40:43.040Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:42:23.877Z"
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-2026-53281"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53281.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53281"
title: "iommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption\n\nCommit 60f030f7418d (\"iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE\")\nfixed a NULL pointer dereference in an unlikely situation partly.\n\nIf dev_pasid is not found in the dev_pasids list, it remains NULL.\nHowever, the teardown operations are executed unconditionally, this lead\nto a NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption.\n\nIf the domain was never attached to this IOMMU, info will be NULL, which\nwould cause an immediate dereference when checking --info-\u003erefcnt.\n\nEven if info is not NULL, decrementing the refcount without having removed\na valid PASID might unbalance the count. This could lead to premature\ndropping of the refcount to 0, potentially causing a use-after-free for the\nremaining active devices sharing the domain.\n\nFix it by returning early if dev_pasid is NULL, before executing the\nteardown operations.\n\nIssue found by AI review and suggested by Kevin Tian.\nhttps://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260421031347.1408890-1-zhenzhong.duan%40intel.com"
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