Medium [CVE-2026-63854] set no_user_fence for VCN v3.0 enc/dec rings
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-63854 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/vcn: set no_user_fence for VCN v3.0 enc/dec rings VCN encoder and decoder rings do not support 64-bit user fence writes, reject CS submissions with user fences. (cherry picked from commit 663bed3c7b8b9a7624b0d95d300ddae034ad0614) A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's AMDGPU driver, specifically within the Video Core Next (VCN) version 3.0 encoder and decoder rings.
A local user could trigger this by attempting to submit commands with 64-bit user fences, which would result in the rejection of these submissions, effectively causing a denial of service for those specific operations. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-1287. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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