CVE-2026-68242 (GCVE-0-2026-68242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:01 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:01
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Title
drm/i915/gt: Fix NULL deref on sched_engine alloc failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/gt: Fix NULL deref on sched_engine alloc failure Avoid using intel_context_put() before intel_context_init() in execlists_create_virtual() as the kref_put() inside would lead to NULL deref on the IOCTL path when sched_engine allocation fails. Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security. (cherry picked from commit 4f2a12f2d50e9f48227656e4dcbd6423506be31d)
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3e28d37146db5dd49c469bc62a93ca791067d391 , < edd4804f07b8369ed472de19272974e2bf2a6271 (git)
Affected: 3e28d37146db5dd49c469bc62a93ca791067d391 , < 82ec992c404c3dc774c5e9f3d4aa858e97187675 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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