Linux Kernel up to 6.18.35/7.0.12 drm intel_display_device_probe uninitialized pointer

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.35/7.0.12. This affects the function intel_display_device_probe of the component drm. Performing a manipulation results in uninitialized pointer. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-53142. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.35/7.0.12. This affects the function intel_display_device_probe of the component drm. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uninitialized pointer vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-824. The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/display: fix oops in suspend/shutdown without display The xe driver keeps track of whether to probe display, and whether display hardware is there, using xe->info.probe_display. It gets set to false if there's no display after intel_display_device_probe(). However, the display may also be disabled via fuses, detected at a later time in intel_display_device_info_runtime_init(). In this case, the xe driver does for_each_intel_crtc() on uninitialized mode config in xe_display_flush_cleanup_work(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference, and generally calls display code with display info cleared. Check for intel_display_device_present() after intel_display_device_info_runtime_init(), and reset xe->info.probe_display as necessary. Also do unset_display_features() for completeness, although display runtime init has already done that. This will need to be unified across all cases later. Move intel_display_device_info_runtime_init() call slightly earlier, similar to i915, to avoid a bunch of unnecessary setup for no display cases. Note #1: The xe driver has no business doing low level display plumbing like for_each_intel_crtc() to begin with. It all needs to happen in display code. Note #2: The actual bug is present already in commit 44e694958b95 ("drm/xe/display: Implement display support"), but the oops was likely introduced later at commit ddf6492e0e50 ("drm/xe/display: Make display suspend/resume work on discrete"). (cherry picked from commit 7c3eb9f47533220888a67266448185fd0775d4da)

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-53142 since 06/09/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/25/2026).

Upgrading to version 6.18.36 or 7.0.13 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 0f68ddfaaebfbb5581ee931779757d31f4dc9e24/238bcdaae8f2abc65e182de7d1f69cf8f611a610/68938cc08e23a94fd881e845837ff918de005ce7 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.

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• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
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• 7.0.12

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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