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CVE-2026-46229

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure KFD VRAM allocations…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure KFD VRAM allocations set AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_WIPE_ON_RELEASE but not AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_CLEARED, leaving freshly allocated VRAM with stale data from prior use observable by compute kernels. The GEM ioctl path already sets VRAM_CLEARED for all userspace allocations via amdgpu_gem_create_ioctl() and amdgpu_mode_dumb_create(). The KFD path was missing this flag, allowing stale page table remnants to leak into user buffers. This causes crashes in RCCL P2P transport where non-zero data in ptrExchange/head/tail fields corrupts the protocol handshake.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-05-28 10:16
Modified: 2026-10-30 13:18
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥5.4 <6.6.140, ≥6.7 <6.12.90, ≥6.13 <6.18.32, ≥6.19 <7.0.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/047d44d8d29a6a1a5757256837aa9dd78e3cd0b5
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1db431380879fd9d28b763a88a0c0431be5be8df
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b153658f017ad2f5bf8aab479e8d16ac95bc3a
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77d0b5d11387071770246fd0185a69fa28e8e109
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad52d61d82181dbdb7f05826de38352d5e550cc2

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC · record ↗

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