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FKIE_CVE-2026-68248

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-10 13:20 - Updated: 2026-08-19 17:20

Severity

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: Return NULL on error in active_instance Avoid returning &node->base when node is NULL due to OOM during GFP_ATOMIC allocation. Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security. (cherry picked from commit 6029bc064f0b1bac184203a50fbaaf070fa18832)

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e33f0de5fdcd09e51fdec1e5822448970b6420f
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bc7c50ffca43e1824cf29738d0572f1eb21f261
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32c1a2afa90dd07df931f0b12578de1dbb751f0c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58b7e63ca0cd964190957ddd169c899256acaee9
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a727a004d14580b2fc9bec9e1a9ea60a9016cfcf
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b238d86e7f43afde8e830ef5b8d89ffedbbc7613
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbec6a57959ab503e3ad4ad6edd51efb585dce92

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-68248 (GCVE-0-2026-68248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:01 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:32

Title

drm/i915: Return NULL on error in active_instance

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a727a004d14580b2f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bc7c50ffca43e182…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32c1a2afa90dd07df…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b238d86e7f43afde8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbec6a57959ab503e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58b7e63ca0cd96419…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e33f0de5fdcd09e5…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 , < a727a004d14580b2fc9bec9e1a9ea60a9016cfcf (git) Affected: bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 , < 2bc7c50ffca43e1824cf29738d0572f1eb21f261 (git) Affected: bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 , < 32c1a2afa90dd07df931f0b12578de1dbb751f0c (git) Affected: bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 , < b238d86e7f43afde8e830ef5b8d89ffedbbc7613 (git) Affected: bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 , < cbec6a57959ab503e3ad4ad6edd51efb585dce92 (git) Affected: bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 , < 58b7e63ca0cd964190957ddd169c899256acaee9 (git) Affected: bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 , < 1e33f0de5fdcd09e51fdec1e5822448970b6420f (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-68248 (GCVE-0-2026-68248)

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