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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74442"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:26:50.102Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:19:29.387Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74442"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74442.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74442"
title: "drm/vmwgfx: avoid destroy_workqueue(NULL) on vkms init failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/vmwgfx: avoid destroy_workqueue(NULL) on vkms init failure\n\nTwo paths through vmw_vkms_init() can leave vmw-\u003ecrc_workq NULL while\nstill leaving the rest of the driver in a state that calls\nvmw_vkms_cleanup() at module unload:\n\n  1. vmw_host_get_guestinfo(GUESTINFO_VBLANK, ...) failing or\n     returning an oversized buffer -- the common case on hosts\n     without a VBLANK guestinfo entry -- early-returned before the\n     workqueue allocation.\n  2. alloc_ordered_workqueue() returning NULL on memory pressure.\n\nvmw_vkms_cleanup() then calls destroy_workqueue(NULL), which\ndereferences wq-\u003ename and panics.\n\nFix the first case by removing the early return: vmw-\u003evkms_enabled\nis already false on the rpci-failure path so no work will ever be\nqueued, and allocating the workqueue unconditionally keeps the\ncontrol flow simple.  Fix the second case by guarding the cleanup\nwith a NULL check, since alloc_ordered_workqueue() can still fail\nunder low memory."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c701778c6a369769992614dac8dc00c8ac72afc"},{"version":"7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96efee36453b697ccbaf75091b7a1807c11809dd"},{"version":"7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ee0532f1d405d37f38c44cbba87342e63d3bbd4"},{"version":"7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05eaa887e7b4f40fba425f8a1d7a5a8a043092a6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","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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