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FKIE_CVE-2026-43280

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-06 12:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:49

Severity

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Add bounds check on pat_index to prevent OOB kernel read in madvise When user provides a bogus pat_index value through the madvise IOCTL, the xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode() function performs an array access without validating bounds. This allows a malicious user to trigger an out-of-bounds kernel read from the xe->pat.table array. The vulnerability exists because the validation in madvise_args_are_sane() directly calls xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode(xe, args->pat_index.val) without first checking if pat_index is within [0, xe->pat.n_entries). Although xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode() has a WARN_ON to catch this in debug builds, it still performs the unsafe array access in production kernels. v2(Matthew Auld) - Using array_index_nospec() to mitigate spectre attacks when the value is used v3(Matthew Auld) - Put the declarations at the start of the block (cherry picked from commit 944a3329b05510d55c69c2ef455136e2fc02de29)

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79f52655567a6471ff3d0d6325ede91bb14461f4	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbbe32618e97eff81577a01eb7d9adcd64a216d7	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffba51100ff61792fefbae11ca38ac1987a818dd	Patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	linux	linux_kernel	*
	linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2026-43280 (GCVE-0-2026-43280)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:29 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:27

Title

drm/xe: Add bounds check on pat_index to prevent OOB kernel read in madvise

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffba51100ff61792f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79f52655567a6471f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbbe32618e97eff81…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: ada7486c5668db542a7d361268df931aca5b726a , < ffba51100ff61792fefbae11ca38ac1987a818dd (git) Affected: ada7486c5668db542a7d361268df931aca5b726a , < 79f52655567a6471ff3d0d6325ede91bb14461f4 (git) Affected: ada7486c5668db542a7d361268df931aca5b726a , < fbbe32618e97eff81577a01eb7d9adcd64a216d7 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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