In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: Fix potential...

CVE-2026-43368 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

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

drm/i915: Fix potential overflow of shmem scatterlist length

When a scatterlists table of a GEM shmem object of size 4 GB or more is
populated with pages allocated from a folio, unsigned int .length
attribute of a scatterlist may get overflowed if total byte length of
pages allocated to that single scatterlist happens to reach or cross the
4GB limit. As a consequence, users of the object may suffer from hitting
unexpected, premature end of the object's backing pages.

[278.780187] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[278.780377] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2326 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_mm.c:55 remap_sg+0x199/0x1d0 [i915]
...
[278.780654] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2326 Comm: gem_mmap_offset Tainted: G S U 6.17.0-rc1-CI_DRM_16981-ged823aaa0607+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[278.780656] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [U]=USER
[278.780658] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake Client Platform/MTL-P LP5x T3 RVP, BIOS MTLPFWI1.R00.3471.D91.2401310918 01/31/2024
[278.780659] RIP: 0010:remap_sg+0x199/0x1d0 [i915]
...
[278.780786] Call Trace:
[278.780787] <TASK>
[278.780788] ? __apply_to_page_range+0x3e6/0x910
[278.780795] ? __pfx_remap_sg+0x10/0x10 [i915]
[278.780906] apply_to_page_range+0x14/0x30
[278.780908] remap_io_sg+0x14d/0x260 [i915]
[278.781013] vm_fault_cpu+0xd2/0x330 [i915]
[278.781137] __do_fault+0x3a/0x1b0
[278.781140] do_fault+0x322/0x640
[278.781143] __handle_mm_fault+0x938/0xfd0
[278.781150] handle_mm_fault+0x12c/0x300
[278.781152] ? lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x4b/0x760
[278.781155] do_user_addr_fault+0x2d6/0x8e0
[278.781160] exc_page_fault+0x96/0x2c0
[278.781165] asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
...

That issue was apprehended by the author of a change that introduced it,
and potential risk even annotated with a comment, but then never addressed.

When adding folio pages to a scatterlist table, take care of byte length
of any single scatterlist not exceeding max_segment.

(cherry picked from commit 06249b4e691a75694c014a61708c007fb5755f60)

Basic information

Type
unreviewed
Severity
high
Advisory on GitHub
Open advisory ↗
Repository advisory
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Source code
Not specified
Published (advisory)
2026-05-08 15:31:26 UTC
Updated
2026-05-11 09:31:33 UTC
NVD published
2026-05-08

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.01% 1.74%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
7.8 3.1 —
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-rm7m-cqfw-43rf ↗
CVE CVE-2026-43368 ↗

References

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