High [CVE-2026-72361] Fix double-free of managed BO in error path
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-72361 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/hw_engine: Fix double-free of managed BO in error path The error path in hw_engine_init() explicitly frees a BO allocated with xe_managed_bo_create_pin_map() via xe_bo_unpin_map_no_vm().
Since the managed BO already has a devm cleanup action registered, this causes a double-free when devm unwinds during probe failure.
Remove the explicit free and let devm handle it, consistent with all other xe_managed_bo_create_pin_map() callers. (cherry picked from commit e459a3bdeb117be496d7f229e2ea1f6c9fe4080b) An error handling path in the hw_engine_init() function attempts to free a Buffer Object (BO) that is already managed by the device resource management (devm) system.
This redundant free operation results in a double-free vulnerability. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause memory corruption, leading to a denial of service or possibly arbitrary code execution.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). Weakness: CWE-1341.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
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Mitigation
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