Linux Kernel up to 6.18.15/6.19.5 amdgpu_irq_put denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.15/6.19.5. This vulnerability affects the function amdgpu_irq_put. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-43298. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.15/6.19.5. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function amdgpu_irq_put. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Skip vcn poison irq release on VF VF doesn't enable VCN poison irq in VCNv2.5. Skip releasing it and avoid call trace during deinitialization. [ 71.913601] [drm] clean up the vf2pf work item [ 71.915088] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 71.915092] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1079 at /tmp/amd.aFkFvSQl/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c:641 amdgpu_irq_put+0xc6/0xe0 [amdgpu] [ 71.915355] Modules linked in: amdgpu(OE-) amddrm_ttm_helper(OE) amdttm(OE) amddrm_buddy(OE) amdxcp(OE) amddrm_exec(OE) amd_sched(OE) amdkcl(OE) drm_suballoc_helper drm_display_helper cec rc_core i2c_algo_bit video wmi binfmt_misc nls_iso8859_1 intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common input_leds joydev serio_raw mac_hid qemu_fw_cfg sch_fq_codel dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua efi_pstore ip_tables x_tables autofs4 btrfs blake2b_generic raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 hid_generic crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul polyval_clmulni polyval_generic ghash_clmulni_intel usbhid 8139too sha256_ssse3 sha1_ssse3 hid psmouse bochs i2c_i801 ahci drm_vram_helper libahci i2c_smbus lpc_ich drm_ttm_helper 8139cp mii ttm aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd [ 71.915484] CPU: 3 PID: 1079 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G OE 6.8.0-87-generic #88~22.04.1-Ubuntu [ 71.915489] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM/RHEL, BIOS 1.16.3-2.el9_5.1 04/01/2014 [ 71.915492] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_irq_put+0xc6/0xe0 [amdgpu] [ 71.915768] Code: 75 84 b8 ea ff ff ff eb d4 44 89 ea 48 89 de 4c 89 e7 e8 fd fc ff ff 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 5d 31 d2 31 f6 31 ff e9 55 30 3b c7 <0f> 0b eb d4 b8 fe ff ff ff eb a8 e9 b7 3b 8a 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 [ 71.915771] RSP: 0018:ffffcf0800eafa30 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 71.915775] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff891bda4b0668 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 71.915777] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 71.915779] RBP: ffffcf0800eafa50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 71.915781] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff891bda480000 [ 71.915782] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 71.915792] FS: 000070cff87c4c40(0000) GS:ffff893abfb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 71.915795] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 71.915797] CR2: 00005fa13073e478 CR3: 000000010d634006 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 [ 71.915800] PKRU: 55555554 [ 71.915802] Call Trace: [ 71.915805] <TASK> [ 71.915809] vcn_v2_5_hw_fini+0x19e/0x1e0 [amdgpu]

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-43298 since 05/01/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 6.18.16 or 6.19.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8ee9aa80d4f1893a6699d46c403a1731548b544b/f1db6fc5a834c8ca9485cc0596dd7df8b8619b64/8980be03b3f9a4b58197ef95d3b37efa41a25331 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-1454). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Microsoft Azure Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
• 6.18.2
• 6.18.3
• 6.18.4
• 6.18.5
• 6.18.6
• 6.18.7
• 6.18.8
• 6.18.9
• 6.18.10
• 6.18.11
• 6.18.12
• 6.18.13
• 6.18.14
• 6.18.15
• 6.19.0
• 6.19.1
• 6.19.2
• 6.19.3
• 6.19.4
• 6.19.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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