CVE-2026-43280

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/xe: Add bounds check on pat_index to prevent OOB kernel read in madvise

When user provides a bogus pat_index value through the madvise IOCTL, the

xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode() function performs an array access without

validating bounds. This allows a malicious user to trigger an out-of-bounds

kernel read from the xe->pat.table array.

The vulnerability exists because the validation in madvise_args_are_sane()

directly calls xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode(xe, args->pat_index.val) without

first checking if pat_index is within [0, xe->pat.n_entries).

Although xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode() has a WARN_ON to catch this in debug

builds, it still performs the unsafe array access in production kernels.

v2(Matthew Auld)

- Using array_index_nospec() to mitigate spectre attacks when the value

is used

v3(Matthew Auld)

- Put the declarations at the start of the block

(cherry picked from commit 944a3329b05510d55c69c2ef455136e2fc02de2

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References