Medium [CVE-2026-68268] Linux kernel: drm/xe improper error handling may lead to denial of service
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68268.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Return error on non-migratable faults requiring devmem Non-migratable faults that require devmem incorrectly jump to the 'out' label, which squashes the error code intended to be returned to the upper layers.
Fix this by returning -EACCES instead. (cherry picked from commit c4508edb2c723de93717272488ea65b165637eac) Non-migratable faults requiring device memory (devmem) incorrectly suppress error codes, preventing them from being returned to higher layers of the system.
This improper error handling could lead to unexpected system behavior or resource issues, potentially resulting in a denial of service. 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-252. Red Hat lists 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; Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 as not affected.
Affected versions
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Mitigation
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