CVE-2026-53282

x86/kexec: Push kjump return address even for non-kjump kexec

published June 26, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

x86/kexec: Push kjump return address even for non-kjump kexec

The version of purgatory code shipped by kexec-tools attempts to look above

the top of its stack to find a return address for a kjump, even in a non-kjump

kexec.

After the commit in Fixes: the word above the stack might not be there,

leading to a fault (which is at least now caught by my exception-handling code

in kexec).

That commit fixed things for the actual kjump path, but no longer

"gratuitously" pushes the unused return address to the stack in the non-kjump

path. Put that *back* in the non-kjump path, to prevent purgatory from

crashing when trying to access it.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2026-06-26T19:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 JUN 19:40Z
    x86/kexec: Push kjump return address even for non-kjump kexec
    cvelistv5