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CVE-2026-68383 (GCVE-0-2026-68383)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:04 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:04
VLAI
Title
drm/xe/guc: Keep scheduler timeline name alive
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/guc: Keep scheduler timeline name alive The scheduler keeps a pointer to the timeline name, but q->name is freed with the exec queue while scheduler fences can still reference it. Store the name in struct xe_guc_exec_queue so it shares the scheduler's RCU-deferred lifetime. (cherry picked from commit 41075f0eb5dcbd3b065d15f15ef7bbe9315188e8)
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6bd90e700b4285e6a7541e00f969cab0d696adde , < 77fd62412431e8c80ef2ad61466bc76fe425f80a (git)
Affected: 6bd90e700b4285e6a7541e00f969cab0d696adde , < 299bc6d50b1bed7d1f408391736712f01a0855e2 (git)
Affected: b17fcce70733c211cb5dabf54f4f9491920b1d92 (git)
Affected: ba37807d08bae67de6139346a85650cab5f6145a (git)
Affected: 683b0e397dad9f26a42dcacf6f7f545a77ce6c06 (git)
Affected: 6.12.43 , < 6.13 (semver)
Affected: 6.15.11 , < 6.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.16.2 , < 6.17 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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