GHSA-rwq9-95v8-58fq · Severity: medium — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/dma: Do not try to...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/dma: Do not try to iommu_map a 0 length region in swiotlb iommu_dma_iova_link_swiotlb() processes a mapping that is unaligned in three parts, the head, middle and trailer. If the middle is empty because there are no aligned pages it will call down to iommu_map() with a 0 size which the iommupt implementation will fail as illegal. It then tries to do an error unwind and starts from the wrong spot corrupting the mapping so the eventual destruction triggers a WARN_ON. Check for 0 length and avoid mapping and use offset not 0 as the starting point to unlink. This is frequently triggered by using some kinds of thunderbolt NVMe drives that trigger forced SWIOTLB for unaligned memory. NVMe seems to pass in oddly aligned buffers for the passthrough commands from smartctl that hit this condition.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-53164 is rated Low Risk (22.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.12%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-07-08 | 0.17% | 0.12% | -0.05% |
| 2 | 2026-06-25 | — | 0.17% | — |
Full EPSS history (2 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
GHSA-rwq9-95v8-58fq · Severity: medium — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/dma: Do not try to...
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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debian
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unimportant | CVE-2026-53164 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-53164 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53164 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2026-53164 severity moderate: SUSE including 21 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 199 product×package rows across 40 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, … (40 product lines)): Known Not Affected 199. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53164/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2026-53164 medium priority: Ubuntu including 162 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1458 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1051, ignored 172, not-affected 112, released 88, needed 35. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-53164 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.16, < 6.18.36 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.19, < 7.0.13 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* |