# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72362"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:01.414Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:13:13.207Z"
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-2026-72362"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72362.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72362"
title: "drm/xe/pt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe/pt: Fix NULL pointer dereference in xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry()\n\nThe page-table walk framework may pass a NULL *child pointer for\nunpopulated entries. xe_pt_zap_ptes_entry() called container_of(*child)\nbefore checking for NULL, then dereferenced the result, causing a crash.\n\nMove the container_of() call after a NULL guard, so the function returns\nearly instead of proceeding with an invalid pointer. XE_WARN_ON is kept\nto help root cause the issue, but we now bail instead of crashing the\ndriver.\n\nv2: Comment that triggering XE_WARN_ON is unexpected behavior (Matt Brost)\n\n(cherry picked from commit b9297d19d9df5d4b6c994648570c5dcd1cac68ff)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff330ce16c846b70164ff0eb544c81219d4c5c08"},{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78b1074966d290d4517f42bc81e13c4349368d12"},{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d94b9922b2ae5ee6e900f8da0bd537b251c6110c"},{"version":"dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3feeb667197bd58a17f4edfdbcad249ffcb3c864"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","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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