CVE-2026-68242

CVE CVE-2026-68242EUVD EUVD-2026-55343Published 2026-08-10T12:01:08.000Z

What the advisory describes

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)

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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Linux — Linux 5.15; patch: 0; patch: 7.2-rc3; patch: 7.1.6; 3e28d37146db5dd49c469bc62a93ca791067d391 <82ec992c404c3dc774c5e9f3d4aa858e97187675; 3e28d37146db5dd49c469bc62a93ca791067d391 <edd4804f07b8369ed472de19272974e2bf2a6271

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Linux — Linux

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