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CVE-2026-43253

Updated on 06 May 2026

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu/amd: move wait_on_sem() out of spinlock

With iommu.strict=1, the existing completion wait path can cause soft lockups under stressed environment, as wait_on_sem() busy-waits under the spinlock with interrupts disabled.

Move the completion wait in iommu_completion_wait() out of the spinlock. wait_on_sem() only polls the hardware-updated cmd_sem and does not require iommu->lock, so holding the lock during the busy wait unnecessarily increases contention and extends the time with interrupts disabled.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+10 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 13 Planned —
Ubuntu 24.04 Released
45 kernels
  • 6.8.0-35.35
  • 6.8.0-38.38
  • 6.8.0-36.36
  • 6.8.0-39.39
  • 6.8.0-40.40
  • 6.8.0-41.41
  • 6.8.0-44.44
  • 6.8.0-45.45
  • 6.8.0-31.31
  • 6.8.0-47.47
  • 6.8.0-48.48
  • 6.8.0-49.49
  • 6.8.0-50.51
  • 6.8.0-51.52
  • 6.8.0-52.53
  • 6.8.0-54.56
  • 6.8.0-55.57
  • 6.8.0-53.55
  • 6.8.0-56.58
  • 6.8.0-57.59
  • 6.8.0-58.60
  • 6.8.0-59.61
  • 6.8.0-60.63
  • 6.8.0-62.65
  • 6.8.0-63.66
  • 6.8.0-64.67
  • 6.8.0-71.71
  • 6.8.0-78.78
  • 6.8.0-79.79
  • 6.8.0-84.84
  • 6.8.0-85.85
  • 6.8.0-83.83
  • 6.8.0-86.87
  • 6.8.0-87.88
  • 6.8.0-88.89
  • 6.8.0-90.91
  • 6.8.0-94.96
  • 6.8.0-100.100
  • 6.8.0-101.101
  • 6.8.0-106.106
  • 6.8.0-107.107
  • 6.8.0-110.110
  • 6.8.0-111.111
  • 6.8.0-117.117
  • 6.8.0-124.124
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned —