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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-53142

| EUVDEUVD-2026-39233 MEDIUM
Use of Uninitialized Resource (CWE-908)
2026-06-25 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 GHSA-hx3f-5fww-5hr9
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
vuln.today AI
5.5 MEDIUM

Local trigger via suspend/shutdown requiring low-privilege user, no data exposure, crash-only impact fully justifies AV:L/PR:L and C:N/I:N/A:H.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative
Red Hat
5.5 LOW
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 07, 2026 - 16:58 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 07, 2026 - 16:52 NVD
5.5 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Jun 25, 2026 - 10:32 EUVD
CVE Published
Jun 25, 2026 - 09:16 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jun 25, 2026 - 09:16 nvd
MEDIUM 5.5

DescriptionNVD

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

drm/xe/display: fix oops in suspend/shutdown without display

The xe driver keeps track of whether to probe display, and whether display hardware is there, using xe->info.probe_display. It gets set to false if there's no display after intel_display_device_probe(). However, the display may also be disabled via fuses, detected at a later time in intel_display_device_info_runtime_init().

In this case, the xe driver does for_each_intel_crtc() on uninitialized mode config in xe_display_flush_cleanup_work(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference, and generally calls display code with display info cleared.

Check for intel_display_device_present() after intel_display_device_info_runtime_init(), and reset xe->info.probe_display as necessary. Also do unset_display_features() for completeness, although display runtime init has already done that. This will need to be unified across all cases later.

Move intel_display_device_info_runtime_init() call slightly earlier, similar to i915, to avoid a bunch of unnecessary setup for no display cases.

Note #1: The xe driver has no business doing low level display plumbing like for_each_intel_crtc() to begin with. It all needs to happen in display code.

Note #2: The actual bug is present already in commit 44e694958b95 ("drm/xe/display: Implement display support"), but the oops was likely introduced later at commit ddf6492e0e50 ("drm/xe/display: Make display suspend/resume work on discrete").

(cherry picked from commit 7c3eb9f47533220888a67266448185fd0775d4da)

AnalysisAI

NULL pointer dereference in the Intel Xe GPU driver (drm/xe) causes a kernel panic during system suspend or shutdown when display hardware is disabled via hardware fuses rather than absent at initial probe. Systems running Linux 6.8 and later with Intel Xe GPUs in fuse-disabled display configurations are affected; a low-privileged local user can trigger an unplanned system crash by initiating suspend or shutdown. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.17% (6th percentile), reflecting this as a reliability and local-denial-of-service issue rather than a broad security priority.

Technical ContextAI

The Intel Xe GPU driver (drm/xe) uses the flag xe->info.probe_display to gate execution of display-related code paths. This flag is correctly cleared when display hardware is absent after intel_display_device_probe(), but a second display-disabling mechanism exists: hardware fuses, which are evaluated later in intel_display_device_info_runtime_init(). When fuses disable the display, the probe_display flag is not reset, causing xe_display_flush_cleanup_work() to invoke for_each_intel_crtc() against an uninitialized DRM mode config structure during suspend or shutdown. CWE-908 (Use of Uninitialized Resource) precisely describes the root cause - the driver dereferences a data structure that was never populated because the display subsystem was fuse-disabled before initialization completed. The bug was introduced with commit 44e694958b95 (drm/xe display support) and the oops path was exposed by commit ddf6492e0e50 (discrete GPU suspend/resume). Affected CPE: cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*.

RemediationAI

Update to Linux 7.1 stable, 7.0.13, or 6.18.36, all of which contain the backported fix derived from upstream commit 7c3eb9f47533220888a67266448185fd0775d4da. Stable tree patches are available at https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f68ddfaaebfbb5581ee931779757d31f4dc9e24, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68938cc08e23a94fd881e845837ff918de005ce7, and https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/238bcdaae8f2abc65e182de7d1f69cf8f611a610. Distribution users on RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, or SUSE should check vendor-specific kernel errata for backport availability. For systems that cannot be patched immediately and are confirmed to have Xe GPUs with fuse-disabled displays, a compensating control is to restrict unprivileged access to suspend and shutdown operations via polkit rules - this prevents low-privileged users from triggering the vulnerable code path, though it does not eliminate the underlying bug and may affect legitimate power management workflows.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0 Affected

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