Medium [CVE-2026-68252] replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68252 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/sdma7.0: replace BUG_ON() with WARN_ON() There's no need to crash the kernel for these cases. (cherry picked from commit 9723a8bed3aa251a26bee4583bac9d8fb064dd44) This vulnerability could lead to a kernel crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
The issue was caused by an improper use of `BUG_ON()` which has been replaced with `WARN_ON()` to prevent system instability. Red Hat severity: Low — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-617. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; 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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