CVE-2026-46220 | drm/amdgpu/sdma4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON in fence emission

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/sdma4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON in fence emission sdma_v4_0_ring_emit_fence() contains two BUG_ON(addr & 0x3) assertions that verify fence writeback addresses are dword-aligned. These assertions can be reached from unprivileged userspace via crafted DRM_IOCTL_AMDGPU_CS submissions, causing a fatal kernel panic in a scheduler worker thread. Replace both BUG_ON() calls with WARN_ON() to log the condition without crashing the kernel. A misaligned fence address at this point indicates a driver bug, but crashing the kernel is never the correct response when the assertion is reachable from userspace. The CS IOCTL path is the correct place to filter invalid submissions; the ring emission callback is too late to do anything about it. (cherry picked from commit b90250bd933afd1ba94d86d6b13821997b22b18e)

Published: 2026-05-28 Last update: 2026-06-01 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-46220 is rated Low Risk (5.2/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-46220

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# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-28 0.02%

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GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-46220

GHSA-5vh3-fx9f-223v · Severity: unknown — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/sdma4: replace...

OS Trackers for CVE-2026-46220

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debian not yet assigned CVE-2026-46220 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46220
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46220
suse medium CVE-2026-46220 severity moderate: SUSE including 21 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 64 product×package rows across 17 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP7, … (17 product lines)): Known Not Affected 60, Fixed 4. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46220/
ubuntu medium CVE-2026-46220 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1422 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1024, ignored 170, needed 137, released 84, not-affected 7. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46220

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-46220

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References for CVE-2026-46220

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