CVE-2026-53265

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's device mapper DM cache policy. A race condition exists where two processes attempting to invalidate cache blocks concurrently can lead to memory corruption. This can result in a local denial of service, causing the system to crash, or potentially corrupting...

CVE-2026-53265

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache policy smq: check allocation under invalidate lock commit 2d1f7b65f5de "dm cache policy smq: fix missing locks in invalidating cache blocks" added mq-lock around the destructive part of smqinvalidatemapping, but left the...

EUVD-2026-39216

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache policy smq: check allocation under invalidate lock commit 2d1f7b65f5de "dm cache policy smq: fix missing locks in invalidating cache blocks" added mq-lock around the destructive part of smqinvalidatemapping, but left the...

CVE-2026-53265

The CVE-2026-53265 entry describes a Linux kernel race in the dm-cache policy SMQ path. A check-then-act race occurs in smq_invalidate_mapping where an e->allocated check was left outside the mq->lock after the destructive section was serialized; two concurrent invalidators can observe allo...