CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53347

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.11%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the virtio-gpu driver has an issue during driver removal when KMS is disabled. DRM atomic and modesetting are not initialized, leading to access of uninitialized data and kernel crash.

Risk Assessment

The risk is a possible kernel panic when unbinding or removing the virtio-gpu driver in configurations with disabled KMS.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that skips shutting down atomic core when KMS is unavailable.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/virtio: Fix driver removal with disabled KMS DRM atomic and modesetting aren't initialized if virtio-gpu driver built with disabled KMS, leading to access of uninitialized data on driver removal/unbinding and crashing kernel. Fix it by skipping shutting down atomic core with unavailable KMS.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS