Vulnerability in Linux
CVE-2026-53374
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: zero-initialize GART table on allocation GART TLB is flushed after unmapping but not after mapping. Since amdgpu_bo_create_kernel() does not zero-initialize the buffer, when a single PTE is written the TLB may speculatively load other uninitialized entries from the same cacheline. Those garbage entries can appear valid, and a subsequent write to another PTE in the same cacheline may cause the GPU to use a stale garbage PTE from the TLB. Fix this by calling memset_io() to zero-initialize the GART table with gart_pte_flags immediately after allocation. Using AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_CLEARED, SDMA-based clear will not work since SDMA needs GART to be initialized to work. (cherry picked from commit d9af8263b82b6eaa60c5718e0c6631c5037e4b24)
EPSS: 0.001 (2.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Linux — versions 4.2, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 7.1
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-53374?
- CVE-2026-53374 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2026-07-19.
- How severe is CVE-2026-53374?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.