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CVE-2026-72311

Low risk· EPSS 10%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel drm/xe driver, xe_vm_madvise_ioctl() allocates a VMA array in get_vmas(). On error in the L2 flush validation path for PAT madvise, the array is not freed, leading to a memory leak on each failed ioctl. The fix jumps to free_vmas instead of directly to madv_fini.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak can lead to exhaustion of system resources, potentially causing system crashes or performance degradation.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that ensures the VMA array is freed in error paths after get_vmas().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: free madvise VMA array on L2 flush failure xe_vm_madvise_ioctl() allocates madvise_range.vmas in get_vmas(). After get_vmas() succeeds with at least one VMA, error paths must go through free_vmas so the array is released before the madvise details are destroyed. The L2 flush validation path added for PAT madvise rejects some SVM/userptr ranges after get_vmas() has succeeded, but jumps directly to madv_fini. This skips kfree(madvise_range.vmas), leaking the VMA array on each failed ioctl. Jump to free_vmas instead, matching the other validation failure paths after get_vmas() has succeeded. (cherry picked from commit c3a1c3579b1250060da73507a4acef712974c78a)

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