Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23163)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23163). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.123, 6.12.69, 6.18.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/amdgpu: fix NULL pointer dereference in amdgpu_gmc_filter_faults_remove

On APUs such as Raven and Renoir (GC 9.1.0, 9.2.2, 9.3.0), the ih1 and
ih2 interrupt ring buffers are not initialized. This is by design, as
these secondary IH rings are only available on discrete GPUs. See
vega10_ih_sw_init() which explicitly skips ih1/ih2 initialization when
AMD_IS_APU is set.

However, amdgpu_gmc_filter_faults_remove() unconditionally uses ih1 to
get the timestamp of the last interrupt entry. When retry faults are
enabled on APUs (noretry=0), this function is called from the SVM page
fault recovery path, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference when
amdgpu_ih_decode_iv_ts_helper() attempts to access ih->ring[].

The crash manifests as:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000004
RIP: 0010:amdgpu_ih_decode_iv_ts_helper+0x22/0x40 [amdgpu]
Call Trace:
amdgpu_gmc_filter_faults_remove+0x60/0x130 [amdgpu]
svm_range_restore_pages+0xae5/0x11c0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_vm_handle_fault+0xc8/0x340 [amdgpu]
gmc_v9_0_process_interrupt+0x191/0x220 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_irq_dispatch+0xed/0x2c0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_ih_process+0x84/0x100 [amdgpu]

This issue was exposed by commit 1446226d32a4 ("drm/amdgpu: Remove GC HW
IP 9.3.0 from noretry=1") which changed the default for Renoir APU from
noretry=1 to noretry=0, enabling retry fault handling and thus
exercising the buggy code path.

Fix this by adding a c…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-23163 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.123, 6.12.69, 6.18.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2026-23163" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-23163 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.6.123, 6.12.69, 6.18.9 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.6.123, 6.12.69, 6.18.9.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 6.6.123, 6.12.69, 6.18.9
```
ステージング環境で 6.6.123, 6.12.69, 6.18.9 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.4.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.123"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.69"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-23163 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.73-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23163 linux Fixed in: 6.12.69-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23163 linux-hwe-edge