CVE-2026-68242 in Linuxinfo

Zusammenfassung

von MITRE • 10.08.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/i915/gt: Fix NULL deref on sched_engine alloc failure

Avoid using intel_context_put() before intel_context_init() in execlists_create_virtual() as the kref_put() inside would lead to NULL deref on the IOCTL path when sched_engine allocation fails.

Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security.

(cherry picked from commit 4f2a12f2d50e9f48227656e4dcbd6423506be31d)

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Linux

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30.07.2026

Veröffentlichung

10.08.2026

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VDB-387598

CPE

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EPSS

0.00000

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