{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-43368", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-05-01T14:12:56.005Z", "datePublished": "2026-05-08T14:21:20.500Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:27:31.468Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:27:31.468Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/i915: Fix potential overflow of shmem scatterlist length\n\nWhen a scatterlists table of a GEM shmem object of size 4 GB or more is\npopulated with pages allocated from a folio, unsigned int .length\nattribute of a scatterlist may get overflowed if total byte length of\npages allocated to that single scatterlist happens to reach or cross the\n4GB limit. As a consequence, users of the object may suffer from hitting\nunexpected, premature end of the object's backing pages.\n\n[278.780187] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[278.780377] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2326 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_mm.c:55 remap_sg+0x199/0x1d0 [i915]\n...\n[278.780654] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2326 Comm: gem_mmap_offset Tainted: G S U 6.17.0-rc1-CI_DRM_16981-ged823aaa0607+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[278.780656] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [U]=USER\n[278.780658] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake Client Platform/MTL-P LP5x T3 RVP, BIOS MTLPFWI1.R00.3471.D91.2401310918 01/31/2024\n[278.780659] RIP: 0010:remap_sg+0x199/0x1d0 [i915]\n...\n[278.780786] Call Trace:\n[278.780787] \n[278.780788] ? __apply_to_page_range+0x3e6/0x910\n[278.780795] ? __pfx_remap_sg+0x10/0x10 [i915]\n[278.780906] apply_to_page_range+0x14/0x30\n[278.780908] remap_io_sg+0x14d/0x260 [i915]\n[278.781013] vm_fault_cpu+0xd2/0x330 [i915]\n[278.781137] __do_fault+0x3a/0x1b0\n[278.781140] do_fault+0x322/0x640\n[278.781143] __handle_mm_fault+0x938/0xfd0\n[278.781150] handle_mm_fault+0x12c/0x300\n[278.781152] ? lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x4b/0x760\n[278.781155] do_user_addr_fault+0x2d6/0x8e0\n[278.781160] exc_page_fault+0x96/0x2c0\n[278.781165] asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30\n...\n\nThat issue was apprehended by the author of a change that introduced it,\nand potential risk even annotated with a comment, but then never addressed.\n\nWhen adding folio pages to a scatterlist table, take care of byte length\nof any single scatterlist not exceeding max_segment.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 06249b4e691a75694c014a61708c007fb5755f60)" } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable i915 GEM shmem path is reached through local DRM ioctls and mmap faults on an i915 render device, not via network or adjacent protocols.\nAC:L - An attacker can create a large GEM object and fault/bind it through normal i915 paths; there is no race or victim-controlled timing requirement, and uncertainty about allocator state is scored toward the higher-severity low-complexity value.\nPR:L - The relevant GEM create and mmap ioctls are marked DRM_RENDER_ALLOW and are reachable by a local user with render-node access, without CAP_SYS_ADMIN or DRM master privileges.\nUI:N - No victim action is required after the attacker has local access to the DRM device; the attacker triggers object creation, page population, and mmap/GPU use directly.\nS:U - The impact remains within the kernel/i915 security authority and does not cross a VM, IOMMU, or separate administrative boundary by itself.\nC:H - The overflow corrupts scatterlist length metadata for a user-controlled large object, and later i915 CPU/GPU mapping paths can consume the truncated table and potentially walk/use attacker-groomable scatterlist metadata. Under the required uncertainty rule, this is treated as a high-impact kernel/GPU memory disclosure primitive.\nI:H - The malformed scatterlist can feed GPU page-table or remapping paths with incorrect DMA addresses, plausibly allowing writes through GPU mappings to unintended memory. Under the required uncertainty rule, this is treated as high integrity impact.\nA:H - At minimum the bug can cause premature scatterlist termination leading to kernel warnings/errors, BUG/OOPS-class failures, GPU faults, hangs, or very large unreleased backing-page leaks when triggered repeatedly." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "0b62af28f249b9c4036a05acfb053058dc02e2e2", "lessThan": "aeb7255531ba4a5c3a64938577170d08b78de399", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0b62af28f249b9c4036a05acfb053058dc02e2e2", "lessThan": "1c956f0fccc26fefcbb507516c49d1db41c40471", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0b62af28f249b9c4036a05acfb053058dc02e2e2", "lessThan": "eae4bf4107571283031db96ce132e951615e2ae4", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0b62af28f249b9c4036a05acfb053058dc02e2e2", "lessThan": "21a301f12d18797bf889c15497f922edfdaece3a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "0b62af28f249b9c4036a05acfb053058dc02e2e2", "lessThan": "029ae067431ab9d0fca479bdabe780fa436706ea", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.5", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.6.130", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.78", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.19", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.19.9", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.19.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.0", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.130" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.78" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.19" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.19.9" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.5", "versionEndExcluding": "7.0" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aeb7255531ba4a5c3a64938577170d08b78de399" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c956f0fccc26fefcbb507516c49d1db41c40471" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae4bf4107571283031db96ce132e951615e2ae4" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21a301f12d18797bf889c15497f922edfdaece3a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/029ae067431ab9d0fca479bdabe780fa436706ea" } ], "title": "drm/i915: Fix potential overflow of shmem scatterlist length", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }