CVE-2026-53273

Technical Description

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

tee: optee: prevent use-after-free when the client exits before the supplicant

Commit 70b0d6b0a199 ("tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop") made the

client wait as killable so it can be interrupted during shutdown or

after a supplicant crash. This changes the original lifetime expectations:

the client task can now terminate while the supplicant is still processing

its request.

If the client exits first it removes the request from its queue and

kfree()s it, while the request ID remains in supp->idr. A subsequent

lookup on the supplicant path then dereferences freed memory, leading to

a use-after-free.

Serialise access to the request with supp->mutex:

* Hold supp->mutex in optee_supp_recv() and optee_supp_send() while

looking up and touching the request.

* Let optee_supp_thrd_req() notice that the client has terminated and

signal optee_supp_send() accordingly.

With these changes the request cannot be fr

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References