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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-43368

| EUVD-2026-28674 HIGH
2026-05-08 Linux GHSA-rm7m-cqfw-43rf
7.8
CVSS 3.1
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CVSS VectorNVD

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

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
May 11, 2026 - 08:29 vuln.today
CVSS changed
May 11, 2026 - 08:22 NVD
7.8 (HIGH)
Patch available
May 08, 2026 - 16:18 EUVD
CVE Published
May 08, 2026 - 14:21 nvd
HIGH 7.8
CVE Published
May 08, 2026 - 14:21 nvd
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionNVD

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

drm/i915: Fix potential overflow of shmem scatterlist length

When a scatterlists table of a GEM shmem object of size 4 GB or more is populated with pages allocated from a folio, unsigned int .length attribute of a scatterlist may get overflowed if total byte length of pages allocated to that single scatterlist happens to reach or cross the 4GB limit. As a consequence, users of the object may suffer from hitting unexpected, premature end of the object's backing pages.

[278.780187] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [278.780377] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2326 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_mm.c:55 remap_sg+0x199/0x1d0 [i915] ... [278.780654] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2326 Comm: gem_mmap_offset Tainted: G S U 6.17.0-rc1-CI_DRM_16981-ged823aaa0607+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [278.780656] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [U]=USER [278.780658] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake Client Platform/MTL-P LP5x T3 RVP, BIOS MTLPFWI1.R00.3471.D91.2401310918 01/31/2024 [278.780659] RIP: 0010:remap_sg+0x199/0x1d0 [i915] ... [278.780786] Call Trace: [278.780787] <TASK> [278.780788] ? __apply_to_page_range+0x3e6/0x910 [278.780795] ? __pfx_remap_sg+0x10/0x10 [i915] [278.780906] apply_to_page_range+0x14/0x30 [278.780908] remap_io_sg+0x14d/0x260 [i915] [278.781013] vm_fault_cpu+0xd2/0x330 [i915] [278.781137] __do_fault+0x3a/0x1b0 [278.781140] do_fault+0x322/0x640 [278.781143] __handle_mm_fault+0x938/0xfd0 [278.781150] handle_mm_fault+0x12c/0x300 [278.781152] ? lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x4b/0x760 [278.781155] do_user_addr_fault+0x2d6/0x8e0 [278.781160] exc_page_fault+0x96/0x2c0 [278.781165] asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 ...

That issue was apprehended by the author of a change that introduced it, and potential risk even annotated with a comment, but then never addressed.

When adding folio pages to a scatterlist table, take care of byte length of any single scatterlist not exceeding max_segment.

(cherry picked from commit 06249b4e691a75694c014a61708c007fb5755f60)

AnalysisAI

Integer overflow in Linux kernel's i915 graphics driver corrupts memory mapping for DRM/GEM shmem objects larger than 4GB, causing kernel warnings, potential crashes, and incorrect memory access when Intel graphics hardware processes large buffer objects. The vulnerability manifests when scatterlist length fields overflow during folio page allocation, leading to premature termination of backing page iteration. …

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RemediationAI

Within 24 hours: Identify all systems running Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.18.19, 6.19.9, or 7.0 with i915 graphics drivers enabled. Within 7 days: Test and deploy kernel updates to patched versions (6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.18.19, 6.19.9, or 7.0) in non-production environments. …

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