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CVE-2026-53283: Linux kernel · iommu/amd: Bounds-check devid in __rlookup_amd_iommu()

Affects Linux kernelSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · fixed in f0a0f01787ecece814414b0665df879b69849d09 : update Linux kernel when convenient.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026, 16:49 UTC

Severity
Unrated

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Thin evidence

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CISA SSVC
Exploitation
No evidence of active exploitation and no public proof of concept
Automatable
Attackers cannot reliably automate steps 1–4 of the kill chain
Technical impact
Limited control over the software or limited information exposure

CISA SSVC assessment, 2026-11-06.

Patch
Available – fixed in f0a0f01787ecece814414b0665df879b69849d09, 79db4cbab81f07ce69a93d379ebd40d3709ecfb2, 07d0f496fe7ec5abe3bee7e38be709521567bb33

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 26 Jun 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 6 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Linux kernel to f0a0f01787ecece814414b0665df879b69849d09, 79db4cbab81f07ce69a93d379ebd40d3709ecfb2 or 07d0f496fe7ec5abe3bee7e38be709521567bb33.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
LinuxLinuxAffected
  • ≥ e874c666b15bcb6280c4e747d8de3879bb728829, < f0a0f01787ecece814414b0665df879b69849d09
Fixed in
  • f0a0f01787ecece814414b0665df879b69849d09
LinuxLinuxAffected
  • ≥ e874c666b15bcb6280c4e747d8de3879bb728829, < 79db4cbab81f07ce69a93d379ebd40d3709ecfb2
Fixed in
  • 79db4cbab81f07ce69a93d379ebd40d3709ecfb2
LinuxLinuxAffected
  • ≥ e874c666b15bcb6280c4e747d8de3879bb728829, < 07d0f496fe7ec5abe3bee7e38be709521567bb33
Fixed in
  • 07d0f496fe7ec5abe3bee7e38be709521567bb33
LinuxLinuxAffected
  • =6.16
Fixed in–

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/amd: Bounds-check devid in __rlookup_amd_iommu() iommu_device_register() walks every device on the PCI bus via bus_for_each_dev() and calls amd_iommu_probe_device() for each. The inlined check_device() path computes the device's sbdf, calls rlookup_amd_iommu() to find the owning IOMMU, and only afterwards verifies devid <= pci_seg->last_bdf. __rlookup_amd_iommu() indexes rlookup_table[devid] with no bounds check of its own, so for a PCI device whose BDF is not described by the IVRS, the lookup reads past the end of the allocation before the caller's bounds check can run. This was harmless before commit e874c666b15b ("iommu/amd: Change rlookup, irq_lookup, and alias to use kvalloc()"): the table was a zeroed page-order allocation, so the over-read returned NULL and the caller's NULL check skipped the device. After that commit the table is a tight kvcalloc() and the over-read returns adjacent slab contents, which check_device() then dereferences as a struct amd_iommu *, causing a boot-time GPF. Seen on Google Compute Engine ct6e VMs, where the virtualized IVRS describes only the four TPU endpoints 00:04.0-07.0; the gVNIC at 00:08.0 (devid 0x40) indexes 56 bytes past the 456-byte allocation, into the adjacent kmalloc-512 slab object: pci 0000:00:04.0: Adding to iommu group 0 pci 0000:00:05.0: Adding to iommu group 1 pci 0000:00:06.0: Adding to iommu group 2 pci 0000:00:07.0: Adding to iommu group 3 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3a64695f78746382: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.18.22 #1 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 12/06/2025 RIP: 0010:amd_iommu_probe_device+0x54/0x3a0 Call Trace: __iommu_probe_device+0x107/0x520 probe_iommu_group+0x29/0x50 bus_for_each_dev+0x7e/0xe0 iommu_device_register+0xc9/0x240 iommu_go_to_state+0x9c0/0x1c60 amd_iommu_init+0x14/0x40 pci_iommu_init+0x16/0x60 do_one_initcall+0x47/0x2f0 Guard the array access in __rlookup_amd_iommu(). With the fix applied on 6.18.22, the gVNIC at 00:08.0 is skipped cleanly and the VM boots.

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