# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98510"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:20.805Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:49.169Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98510"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98510.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98510"
title: "drm/xe/vm: nuke PTs only after unlinking contested VMAs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe/vm: nuke PTs only after unlinking contested VMAs\n\nIn xe_vm_close_and_put(), external-BO VMAs are queued on the contested\nlist for deferred destruction via xe_vma_destroy_unlocked(). However,\nxe_vm_pt_destroy() was previously invoked before processing contested\nVMAs, destroying vm-\u003ept_root while those VMAs were still linked to their\nrespective buffer objects (vm_bo-\u003elist.gpuva).\n\nIf a concurrent thread evicts one of those shared buffer objects,\nxe_bo_trigger_rebind() holding only bo-\u003eresv walks the BO's VMAs and, in\nfault mode, calls xe_vm_invalidate_vma() -\u003e xe_pt_zap_ptes(). Because\nvm-\u003ept_root[tile-\u003eid] is already NULL, dereferencing pt-\u003elevel causes a\nNULL ptr deref.\n\nFix this by deferring xe_vm_free_scratch() and xe_vm_pt_destroy() until\nafter all contested VMAs have been unlinked and destroyed.\n\nUser is reporting hitting a NULL ptr deref in xe_pt_zap_ptes(), which\ncould be explained by this race.\n\n(cherry picked from commit c2863648959489767f08892fd6e90577d2ea0b6a)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70fddc065ac80845ffd33095b3635d59883cf7e6"},{"version":"b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba678c2b02e0d36b53deb5a6d5e5ea044d36def7"},{"version":"b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bddaa5e4094c134452c29e20a26c4718827e4cb1"},{"version":"b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24a22fb3c731474b68e986af6804db450fb88617"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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