CVE-2026-68248

Updated on 10 Aug 2026

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

Overview

About vulnerability

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

drm/i915: Return NULL on error in active_instance

Avoid returning &node->base when node is NULL due to OOM during GFP_ATOMIC allocation.

Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security.

(cherry picked from commit 6029bc064f0b1bac184203a50fbaaf070fa18832)

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+5 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 12 Planned
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned