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high 7.8

CVE-2026-23162 json

drm/xe/nvm: Fix double-free on aux add failure

published 2026-02-14 8 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-5874

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

drm/xe/nvm: Fix double-free on aux add failure

After a successful auxiliary_device_init(), aux_dev->dev.release (xe_nvm_release_dev()) is responsible for the kfree(nvm). When there is failure with auxiliary_device_add(), driver will call auxiliary_device_uninit(), which call put_device(). So that the .release callback will be triggered to free the memory associated with the auxiliary_device.

Move the kfree(nvm) into the auxiliary_device_init() failure path and remove the err goto path to fix below error.

" [ 13.232905] ================================================================== [ 13.232911] BUG: KASAN: double-free in xe_nvm_init+0x751/0xf10 [xe] [ 13.233112] Free of addr ffff888120635000 by task systemd-udevd/273

[ 13.233120] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 273 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.19.0-rc2-lgci-xe-kernel+ #225 PREEMPT(voluntary) ... [ 13.233125] Call Trace: [ 13.233126] <TASK> [ 13.233127] dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0xc0 [ 13.233132] print_report+0xce/0x610 [ 13.233136] ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x5d/0x1e0 [ 13.233139] ? xe_nvm_init+0x751/0xf10 [xe] ... "

v2: drop err goto path. (Alexander)

(cherry picked from commit a3187c0c2bbd947ffff97f90d077ac88f9c2a215)

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.18.9, 6.19
  • linux Debian 14 6.18.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23162

  • linux-gcp-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1021.24~24.04.1
  • linux-hwe-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-41.41~24.04.1
  • linux-oem-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1030.30
  • linux-azure-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1021.21~24.04.1
  • linux-nvidia-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1031.31
  • linux-oracle-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1019.19~24.04.3
  • linux-realtime-6.17 Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1018.20~24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23162

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-23162 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: drm/xe/nvm: Fix double-free on aux add failure

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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