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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2026-31540 json

drm/i915/gt: Check set_default_submission() before deferencing

published 2026-04-24 6 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also EUVD-2026-25433

cvss
5.5
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/i915/gt: Check set_default_submission() before deferencing

When the i915 driver firmware binaries are not present, the set_default_submission pointer is not set. This pointer is dereferenced during suspend anyways.

Add a check to make sure it is set before dereferencing.

[ 23.289926] PM: suspend entry (deep) [ 23.293558] Filesystems sync: 0.000 seconds [ 23.298010] Freezing user space processes [ 23.302771] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.000 seconds) [ 23.309766] OOM killer disabled. [ 23.313027] Freezing remaining freezable tasks [ 23.318540] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds) [ 23.342038] serial 00:05: disabled [ 23.345719] serial 00:02: disabled [ 23.349342] serial 00:01: disabled [ 23.353782] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache [ 23.358993] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache [ 23.361635] ata1.00: Entering standby power mode [ 23.368863] ata2.00: Entering standby power mode [ 23.445187] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 23.452194] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode [ 23.457896] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page [ 23.463065] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 23.465640] Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 23.469869] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 211 Comm: kworker/u48:18 Tainted: G S W 6.19.0-rc4-00020-gf0b9d8eb98df #10 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 23.482512] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN [ 23.496511] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn [ 23.501087] RIP: 0010:0x0 [ 23.503755] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6. [ 23.510324] RSP: 0018:ffffb4a60065fca8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 23.515592] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9f428290e000 RCX: 000000000000000f [ 23.522765] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: ffff9f428290e000 [ 23.529937] RBP: ffff9f4282907070 R08: ffff9f4281130428 R09: 00000000ffffffff [ 23.537111] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff9f42829070f8 [ 23.544284] R13: ffff9f4282906028 R14: ffff9f4282900000 R15: ffff9f4282906b68 [ 23.551457] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f466b2cf000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 23.559588] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 23.565365] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000031c230001 CR4: 0000000000f70ef0 [ 23.572539] PKRU: 55555554 [ 23.575281] Call Trace: [ 23.577770] <TASK> [ 23.579905] intel_engines_reset_default_submission+0x42/0x60 [ 23.585695] __intel_gt_unset_wedged+0x191/0x200 [ 23.590360] intel_gt_unset_wedged+0x20/0x40 [ 23.594675] gt_sanitize+0x15e/0x170 [ 23.598290] i915_gem_suspend_late+0x6b/0x180 [ 23.602692] i915_drm_suspend_late+0x35/0xf0 [ 23.607008] ? __pfx_pci_pm_suspend_late+0x10/0x10 [ 23.611843] dpm_run_callback+0x78/0x1c0 [ 23.615817] device_suspend_late+0xde/0x2e0 [ 23.620037] async_suspend_late+0x18/0x30 [ 23.624082] async_run_entry_fn+0x25/0xa0 [ 23.628129] process_one_work+0x15b/0x380 [ 23.632182] worker_thread+0x2a5/0x3c0 [ 23.635973] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 23.640279] kthread+0xf6/0x1f0 [ 23.643464] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 23.647263] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 23.651045] ret_from_fork+0x131/0x190 [ 23.654837] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 23.658634] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 23.662597] </TASK> [ 23.664826] Modules linked in: [ 23.667914] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 23.671271] ------------[ cut here ]------------

(cherry picked from commit daa199abc3d3d1740c9e3a2c3e9216ae5b447cad)

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.203, 6.1.167, 6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.18.20, 6.19.10, 7.0
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.170-1
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.85-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.19.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31540

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-186.196
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-136.136
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1112.119
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1061.64
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1112.122
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1064.72
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1108.114
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1059.67

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31540

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-51.1
  • kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23244-1SUSE-SU-2026:23241-1SUSE-SU-2026:23194-1SUSE-SU-2026:23193-1SUSE-SU-2026:23237-1SUSE-SU-2026:23068-1

  • kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.37.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21555-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-31540 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: drm/i915/gt: Check set_default_submission() before deferencing

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.12% 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 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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