CVE-2026-46229

drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure

published May 28, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure

KFD VRAM allocations set AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_WIPE_ON_RELEASE

but not AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_CLEARED, leaving freshly allocated

VRAM with stale data from prior use observable by compute kernels.

The GEM ioctl path already sets VRAM_CLEARED for all userspace

allocations via amdgpu_gem_create_ioctl() and

amdgpu_mode_dumb_create(). The KFD path was missing this flag,

allowing stale page table remnants to leak into user buffers.

This causes crashes in RCCL P2P transport where non-zero data in

ptrExchange/head/tail fields corrupts the protocol handshake.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.0th percentile
Published
2026-05-28T09:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAY 09:40Z
    drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure
    cvelistv5