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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68266" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:01:41.280Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:58.924Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-68266" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68266.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68266" title: "drm/xe: Hold a dma-buf reference for imported BOs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe: Hold a dma-buf reference for imported BOs\n\nAn imported dma-buf BO is created as a ttm_bo_type_sg BO whose\nreservation object is the exporter's dma_buf-\u003eresv. The importer,\nhowever, only takes a dma-buf reference after a successful\ndma_buf_dynamic_attach(). Until then nothing keeps the exporter alive,\nso if the exporter is freed while the BO still references its resv, a\nlater access to that resv is a use-after-free:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b9c\n Workqueue: ttm ttm_bo_delayed_delete [ttm]\n RIP: 0010:mutex_can_spin_on_owner+0x3f/0xc0\n\nThis can be reached on two paths:\n\n - dma_buf_dynamic_attach() fails, or\n - ttm_bo_init_reserved() fails during BO creation.\n\nIn both cases the BO already has bo-\u003ebase.resv pointing at the exporter\nresv, and sg BOs are always torn down via ttm_bo_delayed_delete(), which\nlocks bo-\u003ebase.resv asynchronously - potentially after the exporter has\nbeen freed.\n\nTake the dma-buf reference in xe_bo_init_locked(), before\nttm_bo_init_reserved(), so it also covers a creation failure there, and\nrelease it in xe_ttm_bo_destroy(). The reference is held for the whole\nBO lifetime, keeping the shared resv alive on every path.\n\nv2:\n - Reworked the fix to avoid creating the imported sg BO before\n dma_buf_dynamic_attach() succeeds.\n - Attach with importer_priv == NULL and make invalidate_mappings ignore\n incomplete imports.\n\nv3:\n - Dropped the xe-side reordering approach since importer_priv must be\n valid when dma_buf_dynamic_attach() publishes the attachment.\n - Per Christian's suggestion on the v1 thread, keyed the check on\n import_attach rather than removing the sg guard entirely.\n - Fixes both xe and amdgpu in a single TTM patch.\n\nv4:\n - Moved import_attach check to after dma_resv_copy_fences() so fences\n are copied before returning for successful imports (Thomas).\n - Removed exporter-alive claim from commit message (Thomas).\n\nv5:\n - Add drm/xe patch to keep imported sg BOs off the LRU before attach\n succeeds; the TTM fix alone is not sufficient for xe if the BO is\n already LRU-visible. (Thomas)\n v4 patch:\n https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/736663/?series=169129&rev=2\n - Patch 1 (drm/ttm) carries Christian's Reviewed-by from v4.\n\nv6:\n - Reworked the fix based on Thomas' suggestion. Instead of the TTM resv\n individualization (v1-v5) plus the xe off-LRU/placement handling (v5),\n just hold a dma-buf reference for the imported BO lifetime so the\n shared resv can never be freed while the BO still references it.\n Single xe patch, no TTM change. (Thomas)\n - Take the reference in xe_bo_init_locked() before ttm_bo_init_reserved()\n so a TTM creation failure is covered too (Thomas).\n - Dropped the v5 series (drm/ttm + drm/xe off-LRU); the off-LRU approach\n also regressed in CI BAT via ttm_bo_pipeline_gutting() creating a ghost\n BO that outlived the exporter.\n Link to v5: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/169984/\n\nv7:\n - Move changelog above --- so it stays in the commit message.\n - Reorder changelog entries oldest-to-newest. (Thomas)\n\n(cherry picked from commit 3516f3fae6be35642f8f06f8a218da6425c0306a)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c22d65d62b3318e237c0e5b1177d90ab83d9fe06"},{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1954c66662de477a8f4309335b775f7b07bd28b"},{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba8c4cbb31c6f81fa5b12d6e28f1f706040aff48"},{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62775525a27c3b0d56382e08ba81ee2d322058b6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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