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GHSA-7RQX-8X9Q-HJ6W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-15 06:32

Details

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

drm/xe/pt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry()

The page-table walk framework may pass a NULL child pointer for unpopulated entries. xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry() called container_of(child) before checking for NULL, then dereferenced the result, causing a crash.

Move the container_of() call after a NULL guard, so the function returns early instead of proceeding with an invalid pointer. XE_WARN_ON is kept to help root cause the issue, but we now bail instead of crashing the driver.

v2: Comment that triggering XE_WARN_ON is unexpected behavior (Matt Brost)

(cherry picked from commit b9297d19d9df5d4b6c994648570c5dcd1cac68ff)

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CVE-2026-72362 (GCVE-0-2026-72362)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:13

Title

drm/xe/pt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/pt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry() The page-table walk framework may pass a NULL *child pointer for unpopulated entries. xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry() called container_of(*child) before checking for NULL, then dereferenced the result, causing a crash. Move the container_of() call after a NULL guard, so the function returns early instead of proceeding with an invalid pointer. XE_WARN_ON is kept to help root cause the issue, but we now bail instead of crashing the driver. v2: Comment that triggering XE_WARN_ON is unexpected behavior (Matt Brost) (cherry picked from commit b9297d19d9df5d4b6c994648570c5dcd1cac68ff)

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff330ce16c846b701…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78b1074966d290d45…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d94b9922b2ae5ee6e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3feeb667197bd58a1…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < ff330ce16c846b70164ff0eb544c81219d4c5c08 (git) Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < 78b1074966d290d4517f42bc81e13c4349368d12 (git) Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < d94b9922b2ae5ee6e900f8da0bd537b251c6110c (git) Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < 3feeb667197bd58a17f4edfdbcad249ffcb3c864 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.8 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-72362 (GCVE-0-2026-72362)

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