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Medium [CVE-2026-53273] prevent use-after-free when the client exits before the supplicant

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-53273.

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CVE-2026-53273
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxUnclassified
Open source advisory

Summary

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 freed while the supplicant still has a reference, eliminating the race. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem, specifically within the OP-TEE driver.

This use-after-free vulnerability occurs when a client task terminates before its associated supplicant has finished processing a request.

Is CVE-2026-53273 exploited?

No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2026-53273 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.

How do I fix CVE-2026-53273?

The advisory VulniPulse tracks names no fixed release. Follow Red Hat's guidance for workarounds and updates.

Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

No fixed release is recorded yet. That does not prove no patch exists. Confirm against the vendor advisory.

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation

The source record does not include mitigation steps. That does not mean no fix exists. Read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source

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