# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43169"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:27:45.356Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:19:07.323Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43169"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43169.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43169"
title: "drm/buddy: Prevent BUG_ON by validating rounded allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/buddy: Prevent BUG_ON by validating rounded allocation\n\nWhen DRM_BUDDY_CONTIGUOUS_ALLOCATION is set, the requested size is\nrounded up to the next power-of-two via roundup_pow_of_two().\nSimilarly, for non-contiguous allocations with large min_block_size,\nthe size is aligned up via round_up(). Both operations can produce a\nrounded size that exceeds mm-\u003esize, which later triggers\nBUG_ON(order \u003e mm-\u003emax_order).\n\nExample scenarios:\n- 9G CONTIGUOUS allocation on 10G VRAM memory:\n  roundup_pow_of_two(9G) = 16G \u003e 10G\n- 9G allocation with 8G min_block_size on 10G VRAM memory:\n  round_up(9G, 8G) = 16G \u003e 10G\n\nFix this by checking the rounded size against mm-\u003esize. For\nnon-contiguous or range allocations where size \u003e mm-\u003esize is invalid,\nreturn -EINVAL immediately. For contiguous allocations without range\nrestrictions, allow the request to fall through to the existing\n__alloc_contig_try_harder() fallback.\n\nThis ensures invalid user input returns an error or uses the fallback\npath instead of hitting BUG_ON.\n\nv2: (Matt A)\n- Add Fixes, Cc stable, and Closes tags for context"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d764b8dd420098a4d253b8a5b27568c897edb2cf"},{"version":"0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6236c1cd9fdf433d39ed28b2491ccdfe7ae95061"},{"version":"0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ecb32c60d8cbed2ee9ce9f343b6aa2f32babc727"},{"version":"0a1844bf0b532d84324453374ad6845f64066c28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5488a29596cdba93a60a79398dc9b69d5bdadf92"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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