CVE-2026-63850 (GCVE-0-2026-63850)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 14:04 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:36
VLAI
Title
drm/amdgpu/vcn: set no_user_fence for VCN v5.0.0 enc ring
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/vcn: set no_user_fence for VCN v5.0.0 enc ring VCN encoder and decoder rings do not support 64-bit user fence writes, reject CS submissions with user fences. (cherry picked from commit 49b1fbbb5a071197ee71e2d70959b1cb29bdc317)
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: b6d1a06320519ac3bfda6ce81067a1bc409b9cff , < 9f5a1459ecc3195282be617639d710b54779c9dc (git)
Affected: b6d1a06320519ac3bfda6ce81067a1bc409b9cff , < 139a8a52ef4349c62129703b3a3e3a6ae4d634eb (git)
Affected: b6d1a06320519ac3bfda6ce81067a1bc409b9cff , < 2c350f3cd94be847ac216e1358ec7001eaaf0934 (git)
Affected: b6d1a06320519ac3bfda6ce81067a1bc409b9cff , < 8cae0ce77de492d7c31c1532a2e80c0c6e7e58cb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.91 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.33 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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