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CVE-2026-68257 (GCVE-0-2026-68257)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:01 – Updated: 2026-08-18 06:55
VLAI
Title
drm/amdkfd: fix 32-bit overflow in CWSR total size calculation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: fix 32-bit overflow in CWSR total size calculation total_cwsr_size was computed in 32-bit before being used as a BO/SVM allocation size. With large ctx_save_restore_area_size and debug_memory_size multiplied by the XCC count, the product can wrap, yielding an undersized CWSR save area that firmware later overruns. Promote total_cwsr_size to u64 and use check_add_overflow()/ check_mul_overflow() in both kfd_queue_acquire_buffers() and kfd_queue_release_buffers(). (cherry picked from commit 319f7e13423ae3f486b9aea82f9ad2d6af0ee608)
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: 325aa07165394b8e866ffe9ec1d4c99d9195b2f2 , < b88ffe6593607364a8c06a48c6f29e55437cdf8e (git)
Affected: d15deafab5d722afb9e2f83c5edcdef9d9d98bd1 , < abce3276c57e36c955627307469b9f009057a467 (git)
Affected: d15deafab5d722afb9e2f83c5edcdef9d9d98bd1 , < 865532d54eb57b660b1cb1b0e1755776ce21b849 (git)
Affected: d15deafab5d722afb9e2f83c5edcdef9d9d98bd1 , < 2b0386d4293920e690c0e017708f999b93cc729b (git)
Affected: 63600103d2ac5c09fdeec5b931b396e4e0efd5d8 (git)
Affected: 6.12.59 , < 6.12.101 (semver)
Affected: 6.17.9 , < 6.18 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (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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