Linux Kernel drm/xe bo_meminfo null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel. This impacts the function bo_meminfo of the component drm/xe. This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-72359. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel (version now known). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bo_meminfo of the component drm/xe. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: fix NPD in bo_meminfo() When a buffer object is purged, its ttm.resource is set to NULL via the TTM pipeline gutting flow. However, the BO remains in the client's object list until userspace explicitly closes the GEM handle. If memory stats are queried during this time, accessing bo->ttm.resource->mem_type will result in a NULL pointer dereference. Fix this by safely skipping purged BOs in bo_meminfo, as they no longer consume any memory. User is getting NPD on device resume, and possible theory is that in bo_move(), if we need to evict something to SYSTEM to save the CCS state, but the BO is marked as dontneed, this won't trigger a move but will nuke the pages, leaving us with a NULL bo resource. And the meminfo() doesn't look ready to handle a NULL resource. v2 (Sashiko): - There could potentially be other cases where we might end up with a NULL resource, so make this a general NULL check for now. (cherry picked from commit c9a8e7daa0afe3161111e27fd92176e608c7f186)

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-72359 since 08/09/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/15/2026).

Applying the patch 5ff2212f0e0779b0b0cbf91fbf970144107c4257 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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