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Medium [CVE-2026-68430] drop unecessary BUG_ON

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68430 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

CVE-2026-68430 Published Aug 12, 2026Updated by vendor Aug 12, 2026
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Summary

drop unecessary BUG_ON(). Red Hat rates this low (CVSS 5.5).

Weakness: CWE-617.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; and 5 more.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26; Red Hat Hardened Images; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4; and 1 more.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

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Fixed versions

No fixed release is recorded yet. That does not prove no patch exists — confirm against the vendor advisory.

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Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • There is no mitigation for this flaw. Systems without AMD GFX8 GPU hardware are not affected by this issue in practice, as the vulnerable code path is only reached when the amdgpu driver is loaded for GFX8 hardware.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 1 hour ago·verify at source

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