CVE-2026-68248
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
10/08/2026
Last modified:
17/08/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
drm/i915: Return NULL on error in active_instance<br />
<br />
Avoid returning &node->base when node is NULL due to OOM<br />
during GFP_ATOMIC allocation.<br />
<br />
Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by<br />
Intel Product Security.<br />
<br />
(cherry picked from commit 6029bc064f0b1bac184203a50fbaaf070fa18832)
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e33f0de5fdcd09e51fdec1e5822448970b6420f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32c1a2afa90dd07df931f0b12578de1dbb751f0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58b7e63ca0cd964190957ddd169c899256acaee9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b238d86e7f43afde8e830ef5b8d89ffedbbc7613
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbec6a57959ab503e3ad4ad6edd51efb585dce92