Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2026· Updated Oct 30, 2026
CVE-2026-68242
CVE-2026-68242
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915/gt: Fix NULL deref on sched_engine alloc failure
Avoid using intel_context_put() before intel_context_init() in execlists_create_virtual() as the kref_put() inside would lead to NULL deref on the IOCTL path when sched_engine allocation fails.
Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security.
(cherry picked from commit 4f2a12f2d50e9f48227656e4dcbd6423506be31d)
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7214db3e62fa9f0be7981cba9039bd835a79c070nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/82ec992c404c3dc774c5e9f3d4aa858e97187675nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ea0aaf8bf9fda6e101f2304391f066d99d0d054nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bedeee4612afc15c53f8d3c6da05897506b4ca24nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c174969f6af6c22fc9c51aefcdb7f9183c3a329anvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/edd4804f07b8369ed472de19272974e2bf2a6271nvd
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