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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-31765

| EUVDEUVD-2026-26578 MEDIUM
NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
2026-05-01 Linux
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

7
Analysis Generated
May 11, 2026 - 17:52 vuln.today
CVSS changed
May 11, 2026 - 17:52 NVD
5.5 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
May 01, 2026 - 16:33 EUVD
Patch released
May 01, 2026 - 15:24 nvd
Patch available
EUVD ID Assigned
May 01, 2026 - 15:00 euvd
EUVD-2026-26578
CVE Published
May 01, 2026 - 14:14 nvd
MEDIUM 5.5
CVE Published
May 01, 2026 - 14:14 nvd
N/A

DescriptionCVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amdgpu: Change AMDGPU_VA_RESERVED_TRAP_SIZE to 64KB

Currently, AMDGPU_VA_RESERVED_TRAP_SIZE is hardcoded to 8KB, while KFD_CWSR_TBA_TMA_SIZE is defined as 2 * PAGE_SIZE. On systems with 4K pages, both values match (8KB), so allocation and reserved space are consistent.

However, on 64K page-size systems, KFD_CWSR_TBA_TMA_SIZE becomes 128KB, while the reserved trap area remains 8KB. This mismatch causes the kernel to crash when running rocminfo or rccl unit tests.

Kernel attempted to read user page (2) - exploit attempt? (uid: 1001) BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000002 Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000002c8a64 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries CPU: 34 UID: 1001 PID: 9379 Comm: rocminfo Tainted: G E 6.19.0-rc4-amdgpu-00320-gf23176405700 #56 VOLUNTARY Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE Hardware name: IBM,9105-42A POWER10 (architected) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.30 (ML1060_896) hv:phyp pSeries NIP: c0000000002c8a64 LR: c00000000125dbc8 CTR: c00000000125e730 REGS: c0000001e0957580 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G E MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24008268 XER: 00000036 CFAR: c00000000125dbc4 DAR: 0000000000000002 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 1 GPR00: c00000000125d908 c0000001e0957820 c0000000016e8100 c00000013d814540 GPR04: 0000000000000002 c00000013d814550 0000000000000045 0000000000000000 GPR08: c00000013444d000 c00000013d814538 c00000013d814538 0000000084002268 GPR12: c00000000125e730 c000007e2ffd5f00 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000020000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 c00000015f653000 0000000000000000 GPR20: c000000138662400 c00000013d814540 0000000000000000 c00000013d814500 GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 c0000001e0957888 c0000001e0957878 GPR28: c00000013d814548 0000000000000000 c00000013d814540 c0000001e0957888 NIP [c0000000002c8a64] __mutex_add_waiter+0x24/0xc0 LR [c00000000125dbc8] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x318/0xd00 Call Trace: 0xc0000001e0957890 (unreliable) __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x58/0xd00 amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_alloc_memory_of_gpu+0x6fc/0xb60 [amdgpu] kfd_process_alloc_gpuvm+0x54/0x1f0 [amdgpu] kfd_process_device_init_cwsr_dgpu+0xa4/0x1a0 [amdgpu] kfd_process_device_init_vm+0xd8/0x2e0 [amdgpu] kfd_ioctl_acquire_vm+0xd0/0x130 [amdgpu] kfd_ioctl+0x514/0x670 [amdgpu] sys_ioctl+0x134/0x180 system_call_exception+0x114/0x300 system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

This patch changes AMDGPU_VA_RESERVED_TRAP_SIZE to 64 KB and KFD_CWSR_TBA_TMA_SIZE to the AMD GPU page size. This means we reserve 64 KB for the trap in the address space, but only allocate 8 KB within it. With this approach, the allocation size never exceeds the reserved area.

(cherry picked from commit 31b8de5e55666f26ea7ece5f412b83eab3f56dbb)

AnalysisAI

Kernel NULL pointer dereference in AMD GPU driver on systems with 64KB page sizes allows local authenticated attackers to crash the system by triggering memory allocation mismatches between reserved trap area (8KB) and required allocation size (128KB) during GPU memory initialization. The vulnerability affects systems running ROCm workloads and causes denial of service when executing rocminfo or rccl unit tests on IBM POWER10 and similar 64K-page architectures. EPSS exploitation probability is very low (0.02%), and no public exploit code or active in-the-wild exploitation has been identified.

Technical ContextAI

The Linux kernel's AMD GPU driver (amdgpu/KFD subsystem) manages GPU virtual address space using reserved trap regions. The vulnerability stems from a hardcoded constant AMDGPU_VA_RESERVED_TRAP_SIZE set to 8KB, while the actual allocation size KFD_CWSR_TBA_TMA_SIZE is defined as 2 * PAGE_SIZE. On systems with 4KB pages, both values are 8KB and remain consistent. However, on 64KB page-size systems (POWER10, ARM64 variants), KFD_CWSR_TBA_TMA_SIZE expands to 128KB while the reserved trap area remains 8KB. This causes memory allocation attempts to exceed the reserved virtual address space, leading to kernel page fault handling errors. The root cause is CWE-476 (NULL pointer dereference), triggered when the kernel attempts to access memory at an invalid address (DAR: 0x00000002) during mutex operations in the GPU memory allocation path (amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_alloc_memory_of_gpu).

RemediationAI

Patch to a fixed kernel version: Linux 6.12.81, 6.18.22, 6.19.12, or 7.0 depending on branch (commit hashes: 6b2614a0ff05a2d2836311425091c8feca6f0c21, 77c918eaa4c916751769242567407f61c6af142a, d3508cf822c4d96d3e492210314f8f6f2da7df58, 4487571ef17a30d274600b3bd6965f497a881299). The fix changes AMDGPU_VA_RESERVED_TRAP_SIZE from 8KB to 64KB and adjusts KFD_CWSR_TBA_TMA_SIZE to use GPU page size, ensuring allocation size never exceeds reserved area. For systems unable to patch immediately, disable AMD GPU workload execution by unloading amdgpu and kfd kernel modules (trade-off: GPU functionality becomes unavailable) or restrict unprivileged user access to GPU via cgroups or SELinux policy (trade-off: may impact intended GPU users). Kernel rebuild with updated source is required; binary patches are not applicable. Patches are available via kernel.org stable branches-apply via normal distribution update mechanisms.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Medium
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 Fixed

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