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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68274"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:01:49.762Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:59.226Z"
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-2026-68274"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68274.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68274"
title: "drm/xe/guc: Fix buffer overflow in steered register list allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe/guc: Fix buffer overflow in steered register list allocation\n\nThe size calculation for the steered register extarray uses only the\ngeometry DSS mask (g_dss_mask) to determine the number of entries to\nallocate:\n\n  total = bitmap_weight(gt-\u003efuse_topo.g_dss_mask, ...) * steer_reg_num;\n\nHowever, the filling loop uses for_each_dss_steering(), which iterates\nover for_each_dss(), defined as the union of g_dss_mask and c_dss_mask\n(geometry + compute DSS). On platforms with compute-only DSS bits, the\nloop writes past the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent slab objects.\n\nThis manifests as list_del corruption and SLUB redzone overwrites during\ndrm_managed_release on device unbind, since the overflow corrupts the\ndrmres list_head of neighboring allocations.\n\nFix by computing the allocation size using the union of both DSS masks,\nmatching the iteration pattern of for_each_dss_steering().\n\n--\nv2:\n- use bitmap_weighted_or() (Zhanjun)\n\n(cherry picked from commit 0a78a44f4901aa6c9263e66be7fce02282f1109f)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b170d696c1e2226713471d810c63b1162335079f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b485bfb45555163bfa5f565d6a3415fcb3035b02"},{"version":"b170d696c1e2226713471d810c63b1162335079f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9a020f3c11eba6573b699f9cf9245a51b025ade"},{"version":"b170d696c1e2226713471d810c63b1162335079f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"632ecc90e1ca5d3b6822bb4d08f84a175b6c42c0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.44","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"}]

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