CVE-2026-72362

CVE-2026-72362

published August 15, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

drm/xe/pt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry()

The page-table walk framework may pass a NULL *child pointer for

unpopulated entries. xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry() called container_of(*child)

before checking for NULL, then dereferenced the result, causing a crash.

Move the container_of() call after a NULL guard, so the function returns

early instead of proceeding with an invalid pointer. XE_WARN_ON is kept

to help root cause the issue, but we now bail instead of crashing the

driver.

v2: Comment that triggering XE_WARN_ON is unexpected behavior (Matt Brost)

(cherry picked from commit b9297d19d9df5d4b6c994648570c5dcd1cac68ff)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00209 · 10.5th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:22Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:56Z
    drm/xe/pt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry()
    cvelistv5