CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53377

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel DRM driver for MSM (Qualcomm Adreno), a bug was fixed where the GPU recovery mechanism would not trigger if there were no pending jobs. This left the GPU in a hung state, leading to repeated timeouts.

Risk Assessment

The risk is that the GPU may remain hung indefinitely, causing graphics system degradation or complete unresponsiveness, impacting system stability.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing this fix (commit from patchwork.freedesktop.org). Monitor distributions for backports.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: always recover the gpu Previously, in case there was no more work to do, recover worker wouldn't trigger recovery and would instead rely on the gpu going to sleep and then resuming when more work is submitted. Recover_worker will first increment the fence of the hung ring so, if there's only one job submitted to a ring and that causes an hang, it will early out. There's no guarantee that the gpu will suspend and resume before more work is submitted and if the gpu is in a hung state it will stay in that state and probably trigger a timeout again. Just stop checking and always recover the gpu. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/704066/

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