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CVE-2026-97422

drm/amdkfd: fix SMI event cross-process information leak

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.53
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: fix SMI event cross-process information leak kfd_smi_ev_enabled() skips the suser privilege check when pid=0. PROCESS_START, PROCESS_END, and VMFAULT events are emitted with pid=0 while carrying another process's PID and command name, so any /dev/kfd user in the render group can monitor all GPU workloads. Pass the target process PID into kfd_smi_event_add() for these events so the existing per-client filter restricts delivery to the owning process or CAP_SYS_ADMIN subscribers.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 938a0650aae6275ba8e924685836bdee2c6aa3db · fixed in 6fc7ab7fcd7eefb2f371a1d43cf7a860a08f922a; From 938a0650aae6275ba8e924685836bdee2c6aa3db · fixed in 470319a893f616ef661a63e825a8e1b9b6eddb91; From 938a0650aae6275ba8e924685836bdee2c6aa3db · fixed in 5bb2dfa65d8da83e87b2a31c270bc567df69a5ca; From 938a0650aae6275ba8e924685836bdee2c6aa3db · fixed in 92a8dba246d371fe268280e5fd74b0955688e6df

  • Linux Linux

    5.9

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.9.0 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.114; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.53

References 4

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